On Aug 4 17:51, Mark Geisert wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > On Aug 4 15:05, Freidin, Alex (Alex) wrote: > > > After search and trial, I found that it's caused by > > > NVIDIA graphics driver for NVS 4200M laptop graphics card. The laptops > > > had version 8.17.12.6696 of the driver installed and after upgrading > > > the driver to the latest from NVIDIA website (ver 8.17.12.7533) the > > > problem was resolved. > > > > This is weird! Cygwin's not doing anything at the GUI frontier, so > > how can a graphic adapter drive influence Cygwin?!? > > Just a WAG, maybe it's not the driver itself but rather some associated NVidia > service that's always running to "help" the driver.
Yeah, that makes sense. > FWIW, there are already other > problematic graphics adapter drivers on the list: the ATI Catalyst drivers. Indeed. I add the NVIDIA and a few words about versions. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
