Launching VLC on a different display

[jdwiegman]

I have a dev environment where I am working on from a command line and need to initialize programs via the command line. I am using vlc 2.0.8 with i915 hw acceleration enabled on an Ubuntu system.

I can launch VLC successfully with the command

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DISPLAY=":0" vlc PARAM

but I get the error message

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Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0" libva: va_getDriverName() returns -1

It works ok if I launch from within an Xsession terminal window itself.

Any suggestions on how to get this working?