[NISMO1968]

Hey!

I'm trying to configure a X11 forwarding to make FireFox "run" on my C8000 HP-UX 11.11 machine. So, "ssh -Y name@IP" to the plain vanilla Debian 12.5 on AMD64 works, and tiny guys like xclock, xterm etc do fine, but starting FireFox is a no-go :( Even "-no-remote" doesn't help. I see these error messages on the console...

"libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
[GFX1-]: glxtest: ManageChildProcess failed

[GFX1-]: glxtest: X error, error_code=10, request_code=148, minor_code=5"

...after which I see a big black window with "Google" (my homepage) name. That's it!

Is there any chance to fix it?

Thanks!

-nismo1968

[robespierre]

Is there any chance to fix it?

You can display a remote application with RealVNC or TightVNC. Forwarding the X11 port requires the X server to support all of the functions used by the client, so it will never work for your case.

[Shiunbird]

I haven't tried this in a bit, but my working setup was with telnet.

Host machine is FreeBSD - at the time I last used it, it was on 13.2 if not mistaken.
If you are doing ssh, you need X11Forwarding enabled in your sshd_config.

On the machine running firefox, use xhost to allow the client.
Then connect via telnet and do export DISPLAY=xserverhost:0.0

When I did this in a different environment with SSH, I think I was using ssh -X, not -Y.

And... now that I think of it, I think I was using Chromium, not firefox.
Mind that telnet is uber mega extremely insecure, and I have my stuff in a separate VLAN for this kind of experiment.

[NISMO1968]

Managed to have FireFox running on my MacOS client machine, but not HP-UX. Messing with enabling indirect rendering so far... I'll report the status (both positive & negative) here. Just for the records.

Thanks for help!

-nismo1968