[nflug] Return to ssh/cygwin/remote X question +suse10 and nvidia

[Stephen Burke]

Cyber Source wrote:
>>
>> In case you don't know, to pass X over the newer ssh, you need to give 
>> it the -X option.
>>
> I don't remember when we saw the need for that option come in but if you 
> updated your ssh for FC3, you might see it. Don't know about windows or 
> cygwin but I would imagine whether it's ssh or openssh (whatever windows 
> uses) and they are updated, you might see the need for that option.
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After a bit research, I now see what you are talking about. Apparently 
the old method (which I had been using), using xhost+, ssh, and 
DISPLAY=<this machine's IP>:0, export DISPLAY, is horribly insecure, so 
now ssh -X is supposed to fix that. Thanks for the tip.

Oddly enough, the hard drive that I just switched from suse 8.2 to 10 
won't work either way. the export DISPLAY maneuver gives me nothing but 
a "mozilla xremote" process listing and no X here (I'm shooting for 
mozilla-mail, remember), and the ssh -X method opens my LOCAL mozilla, 
while sshed into the remote machine, which I can't figure out at all.

Is suse doing something diferent with this days these days? Does anyone 
even USE suse anymore? I can't seem to find anything out there except 
various explantions of the above.

Further, if anyone IS using suse 10 and has successfully configured an 
nvidia video card, I'd love to hear how you did it. Mine is a geforce 
mx420. Currently, clicking on videocard/monitor thing in yast and "sax2 
-m 0=nvidia" give me a totally black screen that requires the box's 
reset button to get beyond. I did the online update at the end of the 
installation that was supposed to install the nvidia driver, which is 
the recommended method, but clearly something is not working.

At this point, I am debating whether or not to attempt installing the 
old nvidia driver that worked beatifully on 8.2, because installing the 
NEW nvidia driver from their site has already pooched one attempt at 
getting this particular system going, and other factors have caused 
there to be quite a few already (back to reformatting, etc), but I'm 
questioning what the old driver is going to do with the new kernel, and 
I don't want to start over again since I finally (except for the nvidia 
thing [which kills any 3D action as well as making enlightenment (my 
favorite wm) look like crap and not quite work]) have suse 10 working 
the way I want it to.

Advice is always welcome.
Thanks,
S.
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