[MPlayer-users] need help

[Luke Harrison]

On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 23:25:51 +0200
Karsten Mueller <kmu at ratio.de> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Assuming you are running KDE:
> 
> press ALT+F2, enter "xhost +localhost", press enter, rerun mplayer
> and RTFM ;)
> 
> Maybe you should have RTFM prior mailing to this list...
> 
> 
> Technical Operations wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hello all, i really want to see what mplayer can do. I am using SuSE 8.0, 
> > intel P3, ...etc. etc.
> > 
> > Mplayer compiled and installed fine, but when i try to run it it fails to 
> > start and i get this error message. 
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Xlib: connectoin to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> > 
> > vo: couldn't open the X11 display (:0.0)!
> > MPlayer GUI requires X11!
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > Exiting... (End of File)
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > I did the ./configure --enable-gui    option, i never saw a complaint about 
> > X11.
> > I have the fonts installed, and the skin,...i have tried with -vo x11, -vo xv 
> > , and without -vo altogether
> > 
> > please help!
> > 
> > Newb
xhost? bad idea...
either match up your x/users or something, 
man xauth probably cant hurt either


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Luke Harrison
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