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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:20:31
Message-Id: 20120429011902.GA2977@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> [12-04-28 04:56]:
2 > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
3 > > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> [12-04-28 00:20]:
4 > >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >> > I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem.
6 > >> > Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread.
7 > >> >
8 > >> > I run stable Gentoo + a few ~amd64 packages. My video adapter is an
9 > >> > NVidia 463 GTX. Since the update to adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 a few
10 > >> > weeks ago all Flash apps crash the plugin within Firefox. I posted a
11 > >> > bug report here and got shot down for reasons I don't understand. (I
12 > >> > understand what he said and why he said it, but I didn't understand
13 > >> > them just giving up without feedback back to Adobe, etc.)
14 > >> >
15 > >> > I'm wondering if anyone else has suffered through this to find a
16 > >> > solution. The nouveau suggestion isn't where I want to go with my
17 > >> > machines and I'm just not finding any solutions on the web yet.
18 > >> >
19 > >> > Anyway, there was at the time a newer (IIRC) or possibly slightly
20 > >> > older (IIDRC) Flash ebuild but it's been removed from portage. That
21 > >> > one worked for me. There is a newer version (11.2.202.233) listed on
22 > >> > the Adobe Flash site but I haven't found info on what it corrects.
23 > >> >
24 > >> > Thanks in advance for any ideas.
25 > >>
26 > >> Flash 11.2 added some new kind of hardware acceleration which
27 > >> apparently doesn't work properly for whatever reason. Disable HW
28 > >> acceleration in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and cross your fingers... or
29 > >> downgrade to 11.1.
30 > >>
31 > >
32 > > I did not find any tag in that file, which allows to disable hardeware
33 > > acceleration.
34 > >
35 > > Or did I miss one?
36 >
37 > EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0
38 >
39 > maybe it's not in the default file... mine has been changed a lot :)
40 > it was mentioned in the flash player release notes.
41 >
42 > You can also right-click on a non-crashing clash object and change the
43 > settings using GUI, disabling the acceleration is in there, too.
44 >
45 This does not work for me. The Clash player still starts with hardware
46 accel enabled and give me that nice LSD-colored impressions... ;(
47
48 Is there any other way to prevent the need of clicking this dialog?
49
50 And why adobe stops the linux-support?
51
52 Best regards,
53 mcc

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Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>