X on win 7

[Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)]

On 7/7/2011 10:24 AM, Daniel Bienstock wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a new Dell Dimension M6600 with Windows 7 SP 1. I have disabled
> the Windows firewall and added rules to allow programs in cygwin and
> cygwin\bin to run.
>
> I am using cygwin 1.7.9 (I also use older cygwins on many 32-bit Windows
> machines).
>
> On this machine, X runs badly: often very slowly, and frequently with
> crashes as well. A couple of times I was forced to reboot the machine --
> Windows appeared unresponsive.
>
> I did try rebaseall, but did not help (in fact had to reinstall cygwin).
>
> I have seen some posts on this topic, but no definitive workaround.

Sounds like a case of BLODA to me.

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda>


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