[NTLUG:Discuss] No video with Ogle

[Bobby Wrenn]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 09:48, Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> 
>>I just installed ogle because I couldn't get Xine to recognize that 
>>libdvdcss was installed.
>>
>>After installing ogle I ran it from the CLI and got at GTK error that it 
>>couldn't open display 0:0. Then I ran it from a kde command <alt-f2>. It 
>>runs with no errors but I get audio and no video. It seems to run the 
>>same now even from the CLI.
>>
>>Ideas?
>>
>>TIA
>>Bobby
> 
> 
> 
> On the "couldn't open display 0:0" error... 
> your Xwindows security is set up so you can't open a window. 
> xeyes ( small program that I use a lot to test x-windows ) 
> would give you the same error... it's not ogle or dvd specific. 
> 
> I see this a lot when you start Xwindows on a box that doen't
> have it's network connection up and running.
> 
> For a temporary solution... you might try doing xhost +localhost
> from the user that started the Xwindows Session in the first place. 
> 
> For a more permant solution, try adding 
> xhost +localhost
> to your 
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> file. There should be data in your 
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc 
> file already.... add the xhost +localhost line a few lines
> after the top... 
> and restart x-windows. 
> 
> This tells your box to let any localally connected process 
> start up a xwindow on your display. 
> 
> The other errors may have been this error... you just didn't 
> see it... 
> 
> 
> 
> jack 
> 

No change after setting xhost +localhost. Network is up.