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

[Daniel Amelang]

On 12/1/06, Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Whoops, I meant cygwin/X, not just cygwin.

Dan