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Re: mozilla/netscape die when on a shockwave enabled web site
- From: "George N. White III" <WhiteG at dfo-mpo dot gc dot ca>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:46:07 -0300 (ADT)
- Subject: Re: mozilla/netscape die when on a shockwave enabled web site
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: "George N. White III" <WhiteG at dfo-mpo dot gc dot ca>
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Bishop, Dean wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> i have been running into a bit of a problem in that whenever i visit a web
> site that has shockwave content, the browser just dies a quiet death. This
> same site works fine when i use the machine locally.
> this occurs in both mozilla and netscape (various versions).
> i tried removing the shockwave plugin and the browsers didn't die anymore,
> but i also, obviously, did not get the full content of the web sites.
>
> Any thoughts on how to rectify this?
I have the same problem using my SGI X-server with mozilla/netscape and
also with a linux box that lacks a sound card. This suggests that
cygwin-xfree is a faithful simulation of "real" X-servers. I suspect the
problem is that the X audio extension is missing and or not supported by
shockwave, and that shockwave doesn't handle missing audio support
properly.
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George N. White III <gnw3@acm.org> Bedford Institute of Oceanography