Pete,
This may not even be close, but:
There was an article in Linux Journal #43 - 11/97 about GIMP
and one of the tips was "gimp --no-xshm" if the remote system
does not support the MIT-SHM extension.
Check your Sun Box with "xdpyinfo | grep MIT-SHM"
We're having to stay at 2.5 due to applications on our boxes
not supporting 2.6 and I haven't come up with the energy to
upgrade the Intel/Sparc boxes to RH 5.0 yet. 4.2 is too stable
in our $ENV.
Rick
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Pete Peterson wrote:
>
> I tried asking this back in April and never got an answer, so I thought I'd
> try again. It is really a pain!
>
> --------------------
> I have some Intel architecture machines running RH 5.0, but the Unix
> machine on my desktop is an UltraSparc running Solaris 2.6. Because of
> this, I would like to be able to run X applications with $DISPLAY pointing
> to my desktop machine.
>
> This appeared to work fine when the Intel machines were running RH 4.2, but
> some problems appear with RH 5.0. A couple particular cases:
>
> Control Panel:
> From xterm window on the Solaris machine, I rlogin to the RH 5.0 machine
> with $DISPLAY pointing to the Solaris machine. When I invoke
> 'control-panel', I get a message in the invocation window that says:
>
> ** WARNING **: XShmAttach failed!
> Red Hat Linux usercfg 3.5
> Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Red Hat Software
> Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>
<clip>
>
>
>
> In both cases, the display for these tools is normal when run on the RH 5.0
> machine's *OWN* display.
>
> Is there something I need to tell RH 5.0 about the Solaris display to make
> this work properly? As I mentioned, everything worked fine with RH 4.2.
> Note that the Solaris machine has a cgsix accelerated 8-bit-color frame
> buffer if that is perhaps relevant to the problem. The problem
> occurs with Solaris 2.5 or 2.51 as well as Solaris 2.6. I don't have any
> problems with the Solaris X-display to machines *OTHER* than RH 5.0.
>
>
> pete peterson
> GenRad, Inc.
> 7 Technology Park Drive
> Westford, MA 01886-0033
>
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