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From: Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:58:07
Message-Id: 558b73fb0610011852xdc5b205j71af0d8e7424bc13@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen by Daniel Iliev
1 On 10/1/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Michael Crute wrote:
3 > > On 9/30/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com> wrote:
4 > >> > The only problem is that all I see is a big
5 > >> > grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas?
6 >
7 > 1) Have tried to start your browser with the factory settings?
8 > E.g. "mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak" and start it. It doesn't matter if
9 > it works or not it's only for the test. Then you can revert to your
10 > settings by "rm -r ~/.mozilla && mv ~/.mozilla-bak ~/.mozilla"
11
12 I did try that but it didn't help.
13
14 > 2) Are you sure you are not trying to play a flash version 8? Because
15 > AFAIK there is no flash-8 for linux yet. ;-(
16
17 Hmm... I have tried quite a few sites, I can't imagine ALL of them
18 have spontaneously changed to Flash 8.
19
20 It seems almost like an X rendering issue. Is there something about
21 Modular X that flash hates?
22
23 -Mike
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