[ REQ 6049]: geomView installation problems

[karczma at info.unicaen.fr]

Dear Gurus,

I have just installed GeomView on a Sparc under Solaris
and OpenWindows. (But not entirely, see beneath).

It won't work.

===>>    Error: Can't Open display


I have even tested this without installing the patch, in order
to see the explosion, but then I got
    
         Error: Can't Open display  hiram:0

which means that without patches the gvx was a tiny bit more
intelligent, but...


My problem is that I run GeomView on a remote machine under Solaris,
but the display is here, under Linux, XFree, openwin. Its name is, you wouldn't 
believe - hiram. Of course, setenv DISPLAY  is correct, and I am capable to run
a dozen of other X applications without nuisance. The Geomview is an exception.

I read the docs. Nothing.

Now, I might try to recompile everything, but this is the last thing
I would do if I were me.


Could you help me? Am I the only victim of this - seemingly - quite normal
configuration? Perhaps we have here some bizarre bugs in the system, but 
it is difficult to believe. No other application refuses to attach itself
to my PC/terminal.

I have tested it from another Sparc (but remote as well). The same symptoms.


I will lookup the sources in order to find out how the program opens the
display, but it might take long.

Thank you, and sorry for bothering you.


Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Caen,
Normandy, France.