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Re: Sound makes cygwin/xfree86 lock up
- From: Tom Bozack <bozackt1 at ridgecrest dot ca dot us>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 13:59:42 -0800
- Subject: Re: Sound makes cygwin/xfree86 lock up
- Organization: Home
- References: <NHEELHJHHFKPMAEAFMFCKEFFCMAA.huntharo@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: bozackt1 at ridgecrest dot ca dot us
Harold
Thanks for the tip. xdpyinfo tells me I'm running XFree86 version
4.2.0. This sure sounds like the problem you describe, though. I used
sound as the example because the problem occurs with RealPlayer and web
sites with sound. I also know that it happens when I set certain KDE
configuration options such as fade menus. Do you think that 4.2.0 may
still have vestages of the problem?
Tom
> Harold Hunt wrote:
> 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
>>
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