Re: XFree86 goes into stasis when NetMeeting is running

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Jeffrey,

Netmeeting and Cygwin/XFree86 in fullscreen mode both need an exclusive 
lock on DirectDraw.  At least, that is what makes sense to me.  One way 
around this is to use the "-engine 1" command-line parameter for 
XWin.exe.  This will tell XWin.exe to use the GDI based (i.e. 
non-DirectDraw) engine to draw its graphics.  You will notice it is a 
little more sluggish than the DirectDraw engine (which is used by 
default), but it will solve your problems with NetMeeting.

Let us know if this works for you,

Harold

Jeffrey C Honig wrote:
> I've recently switched back to Cygwin/XFree86 from Exceed (ugh) and
> rediscovered a problem.
>
> I'm running XFree86 with -fullscreen on my Win2k laptop.  Whenever I
> start NetMeeting to join a call, XFree86 will no longer display until I
> exit NetMeeting.  If I use Alt-Tab to switch to XFree86, it will not be
> restored.  As soon as I exit NetMeeting I am able to switch to XFree86
> again.
>
> What gives?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff