In article <XFMail.970924080356.root@garbled.futureone.com> root@garbled.futureone.com (Tim Rightnour) writes:
>I've had a number of problems with Solaris x86 compat and FreeBSD
>compatability..  I had access to a solaris machine for awhile, and grabbed the
>entire lib dir off it and installed it..  Normal bins ran just fine, however,
>Xwindows programs (for solaris) would not, because they expect a local socket
>while NetBSD XFree86 runs off a unix domain..  I never did figure out a way
>around this one..  The FreeBSD problem was similar, where it looked for some
>obscure library reference.. I think I could have overcome the FreeBSD problem
>by installing the xlibs for FreeBSD into the emul dir.. but the solaris problem
>was totally beyond me.

set your DISPLAY to be hostname:<screen>, so that you don't use the AF_UNIX
socket, but an AF_INET connection.

christos