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RE: Sound makes cygwin/xfree86 lock up
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: <bozackt1 at ridgecrest dot ca dot us>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:55:19 -0500
- Subject: RE: Sound makes cygwin/xfree86 lock up
Tom,
Sound is not a service provided by *any* X Server (sound is not part of the
X Protocol). Therefore it makes little sense that sound events would cause
Cygwin/XFree86 to lock up. I suspect that something else is going on. Are
you running Cygwin/XFree86 4.2.0? You can check by running
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo from an xterm within Cygwin/XFree86. I ask this
because there were problems with versions prior to 4.2.0 where certain
graphics requests caused the server to freeze... those problems have long
since been fixed.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Tom Bozack
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 1:13 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Sound makes cygwin/xfree86 lock up
>
>
> I'm using cygwin/Xfree86 to login to a KDE session on a Linux host using
> XDMCP. Everything works fine until the client requests a service that
> the server can't provide such as sound. When that happens the server
> locks up and becomes unresponsive. The only way to recover is to
> restart the cygwin/XFree86 server and login again to the nost compter.
> Needless to say this is very frustrating.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to prevent this from happening other than not
> do anything that requests sound support (or any other service that
> cygwin?XFree86 can't provide)?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>