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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Bozack > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 1:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 >