[NTLUG:Discuss] No video with Ogle

[Bobby Wrenn]

David Stanaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 10:28 -0500, Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> 
> try: "xhost +local:"
> 
> That permits unix domain sockets for display :0.0 
> 
> xhost + localhost only does tcp sockets.
> 
No change.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>>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.
>>
>>
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