IRIX remote display - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Nov 2012

Richard writes:
...
 Do you mean the client is running on IRIX and the
server is on anothermachine? Yes
...
 I don't see any
reason why any X client on one machine wouldn'tdisplay properly on another machine, so
long as
the X client wasn'tassuming the presence of extensions and was properly respecting
theVisual
of the target display. 
I figured that as well, and I haven't had any problems with Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc.
doing remote displays
to a different "brand" X-server, nor have I had any problems with IRIX ->
IRIX, but mix up IRIX
and others and I have had trouble.
Linux is probably the worst - X.org server. I'll log in just fine, be working fine, no
artifacts, then boom
X reset and I'm back at the XDM prompt. This works with different versions of Linux
(mostly Debian),
different graphics in the X-server machine (ATi (shudder) and nVidia), different net
cables, different
switches, different SGI boxes.
Mac System 10.4 is missing parts - the first thing I noticed after login was that the
toolchest was missing
the text on about half of the selections. Going back and forth over it will cause some
more to show up for a while.
Solaris 10/ Xsun (FFB) had red rectangular artifacts. Only tried that one once.
No one else has a problem with IRIX clients on other X-servers?