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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:57:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:35:11 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> > What about Flash in web browsers is not working for you since updating |
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>> > to OpenRC? Granted, I run only Firefox-3.6.X but I see no problem that |
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>> > I recognize on any of my machines. |
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>> I upgraded to openrc 10 days ago and didn't notice anything untoward, but |
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>> after a few days Firefox 3.6.17 started reporting that it couldn't find |
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>> Flash. (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player service.) I tried Opera, |
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>> Chrome and Seamonkey, and they either said the same or just sat and looked |
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>> at me when asked to stream audio. |
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>> |
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>> I tried re-merging adobe-flash and nspluginwrapper a couple of times and now |
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>> the audio streaming runs, but I'm suffering random lockups when cycling |
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>> desktops, and I think I remember reading that Flash does sometimes cause |
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>> lockups. I'm thinking of removing everything flash and substituting gnash |
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>> or something, because I do like to listen to the radio. |
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>> This is an amd64 box. I have only: |
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>> |
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>> $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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>> ~app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1 |
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> |
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> I believe these may be related to having the oficial nvidia drivers. |
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> When having those, it wants to use hardware acceleration and adobe hasn't |
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> figured out how to do that properly yet.... |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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I do use the ~amd64 nvidia-driver & flash here and haven't seen any |
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problems, although I don't make a lot of use of Flash in Linux but |
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rather do most media watching in a Win XP VM. |
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- Mark |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic flash |
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[I] www-plugins/adobe-flash (10.3.181.14-r1@05/14/11): Adobe Flash Player |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic nvidia |
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[I] dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk (3.2@01/31/11): NVIDIA CUDA Software |
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Development Kit |
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[I] dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit (3.2@01/31/11): NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit |
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[I] media-video/nvidia-settings (260.19.29@01/26/11): NVIDIA Linux X11 |
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Settings Utility |
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[I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers (270.41.06@05/11/11): NVIDIA X11 driver |
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and GLX libraries |
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Found 4 matches. |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ |
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