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: [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 >> > >
