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From: Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 16:31:14
Message-Id: CAKkyAYbALtE1x--xpZZw0MyhDMzvzVN1LqQJmQReydgoLawb6w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing by Mark Knecht
1 Doesn't Google bundle a version of flash with their browser? Or is that
2 something that's coming in the future?
3
4 I had flash crashing a lot on my machine, and just disabled hardware
5 acceleration in the settings to fix it.
6
7 Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2
8 On May 6, 2012 10:28 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
9
10 > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Hartman
11 > <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
12 > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
13 > wrote:
14 > >> I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem.
15 > >> Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread.
16 > >>
17 > >> I run stable Gentoo + a few ~amd64 packages. My video adapter is an
18 > >> NVidia 463 GTX. Since the update to adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 a few
19 > >> weeks ago all Flash apps crash the plugin within Firefox. I posted a
20 > >> bug report here and got shot down for reasons I don't understand. (I
21 > >> understand what he said and why he said it, but I didn't understand
22 > >> them just giving up without feedback back to Adobe, etc.)
23 > >>
24 > >> I'm wondering if anyone else has suffered through this to find a
25 > >> solution. The nouveau suggestion isn't where I want to go with my
26 > >> machines and I'm just not finding any solutions on the web yet.
27 > >>
28 > >> Anyway, there was at the time a newer (IIRC) or possibly slightly
29 > >> older (IIDRC) Flash ebuild but it's been removed from portage. That
30 > >> one worked for me. There is a newer version (11.2.202.233) listed on
31 > >> the Adobe Flash site but I haven't found info on what it corrects.
32 > >>
33 > >> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
34 > >
35 > > Flash 11.2 added some new kind of hardware acceleration which
36 > > apparently doesn't work properly for whatever reason. Disable HW
37 > > acceleration in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and cross your fingers... or
38 > > downgrade to 11.1.
39 > >
40 >
41 > I thought I'd report back that while Flash continues to crash on this
42 > machine only even with updates to both Firefox & adobe-flash, I tried
43 > Google Chrome this morning and it works perfectly. I appears the root
44 > cause of this problem would be Firefox, not Flash or nvidia-drivers,
45 > and I once again have a solution for watching Flash-based media, at
46 > least for the short term.
47 >
48 > My thinking at this point is that Google is going to drive a solution
49 > that keeps YouTube users happy. I doubt long-term they'll let Adobe, a
50 > much smaller company, control their future... :-)
51 >
52 > Cheers,
53 > Mark
54 >
55 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>