[cairo] cairo-xlib-surface.c:402: _swap_ximage_to_native:Assertion`NOT_REACHED' failed.

[Daniel Amelang]

On 12/1/06, Erik Ohrnberger <Erik at echohome.org> wrote:
> > > OK, I've returned from out of town, and I'm wondering where this
> > > discussion ended up.
> > >
> > > Should I start hunting around for a source tarball for
> > cairo-0.1.6 and
> > > it's ebuild file for my gentoo system, or should I hang on and wait
> > > for a patch to test (which I'd be glad to do), or how
> > should I best approach this?
> >
> > If you're going to go back to cairo 0.1.6, you'll have to
> > stick with really old versions of GTK+ and friends, too. I
> > don't think they will work with such an old cairo.
> >
> > You probably don't want to hear this, but one option is to
> > use a modern Win32 X server that doesn't force you to use
> > 24bpp. XVision has been unsupported for several years, AFAIK.
> > Actually, now that I look it up, XVision's decendant, the
> > "Sun Secure Global Desktop" has the same problem. But there
> > are other Win32 X servers out there you can maybe use as a workaround.
> >
> > Regardless, the core problem needs to be solved. Have you
> > tried any of the patches here:
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4945
> >
> > > I also noticed that the bug that I submitted to bugzilla
> > isn't there
> > > anymore.  What happened?
> >
> > I still see it:
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9102
> >
> > Dan
>
> OK.  I see the bug report, and it's still there.  Wonder where I went wrong.
>
> Anyway, I tried cygwin, and it works, but appears to draw a significant
> demand on the Windows machine.  Are there any other X Servers for Windows XP
> that you are ware of, that do not have this bug?

The (previous?) maintainer of cygwin now works on a commercial Win32 X
server called xwin32, which is supposed to be pretty fast. I've never
tried it, so I can't give you a first-hand review. They have a trial
download you can try out.

http://www.starnet.com/products/xwin32/

Dan