[gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and
may other parts.

If I play a video from for example youtube there remains some rests 
(one frame of the video, the controlling "taskbar" of the player 
or parts of them) "in the system": Everytime I open something with a 
black background (mrxvt for example) I see these "frozen parts" even
if firefox has been closed.

Restarting X or openbox does not help ... I have to reboot to wipe
that from my videocard.

My system:
nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe)
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
Phenom X6 1090T
recent Gentoo AMD64

This is a recent feature...previously I have had no problems with this
setup...

Where do I have to dig for the bug?

Thank you very much for any help in advance!

Best regards,
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[Dale]

meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and
> may other parts.
>
> If I play a video from for example youtube there remains some rests
> (one frame of the video, the controlling "taskbar" of the player
> or parts of them) "in the system": Everytime I open something with a
> black background (mrxvt for example) I see these "frozen parts" even
> if firefox has been closed.
>
> Restarting X or openbox does not help ... I have to reboot to wipe
> that from my videocard.
>
> My system:
> nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe)
> ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
> Phenom X6 1090T
> recent Gentoo AMD64
>
> This is a recent feature...previously I have had no problems with this
> setup...
>
> Where do I have to dig for the bug?
>
> Thank you very much for any help in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
>    

I don't know if this is related or not but if I open several tabs that 
have videos on them, after I go through a couple tabs, the videos 
disappears.  I have to reload the page to get it to show up again.  It's 
as if it can only load so many then loses its cache or something.

I know these are not the same but could it be that flash is broken 
somehow?  Maybe the video drivers has a issue?   I'm sort of like you, 
looks like yours is a video card or driver issue but not real sure.

BTW, I'm amd64 as well, have a GT-220 nvidia card, 4 core CPU, and it 
did this when I had 4Gbs of ram and after my recent upgrade to 8Gbs.

I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 for my drivers.  Are we 
using the same drivers but just slightly different problems?

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[meino.cramer]

Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> [11-02-19 13:08]:
> meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and
> >may other parts.
> >
> >If I play a video from for example youtube there remains some rests
> >(one frame of the video, the controlling "taskbar" of the player
> >or parts of them) "in the system": Everytime I open something with a
> >black background (mrxvt for example) I see these "frozen parts" even
> >if firefox has been closed.
> >
> >Restarting X or openbox does not help ... I have to reboot to wipe
> >that from my videocard.
> >
> >My system:
> >nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe)
> >ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
> >Phenom X6 1090T
> >recent Gentoo AMD64
> >
> >This is a recent feature...previously I have had no problems with this
> >setup...
> >
> >Where do I have to dig for the bug?
> >
> >Thank you very much for any help in advance!
> >
> >Best regards,
> >mcc
> >
> >   
> 
> I don't know if this is related or not but if I open several tabs that 
> have videos on them, after I go through a couple tabs, the videos 
> disappears.  I have to reload the page to get it to show up again.  
> It's as if it can only load so many then loses its cache or something.
> 
> I know these are not the same but could it be that flash is broken 
> somehow?  Maybe the video drivers has a issue?   I'm sort of like you, 
> looks like yours is a video card or driver issue but not real sure.
> 
> BTW, I'm amd64 as well, have a GT-220 nvidia card, 4 core CPU, and it 
> did this when I had 4Gbs of ram and after my recent upgrade to 8Gbs.
> 
> I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29 for my drivers.  Are we 
> using the same drivers but just slightly different problems?
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 

Hi Dale,

I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge...
on a daily basis.

I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36.

May be our problems can be abstracted to "the flash player get lost
control over its own video overlay area"...

I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick
(hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally
perform, hahahaha! :))

Hopefully another wizard will tune in...

Have a nice weekend!
Best regards
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[Dale]

meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi Dale,
>
> I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge...
> on a daily basis.
>
> I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36.
>
> May be our problems can be abstracted to "the flash player get lost
> control over its own video overlay area"...
>
> I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick
> (hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally
> perform, hahahaha! :))
>
> Hopefully another wizard will tune in...
>
> Have a nice weekend!
> Best regards
> mcc
>
>    

Maybe you should try the latest unstable drivers.

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36

I'm in the middle of a download but I may try that in a little while.  
See if it helps any.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>> Hi Dale,
>>
>> I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge...
>> on a daily basis.
>>
>> I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36.
>>
>> May be our problems can be abstracted to "the flash player get lost
>> control over its own video overlay area"...
>>
>> I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick
>> (hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally
>> perform, hahahaha! :))
>>
>> Hopefully another wizard will tune in...
>>
>> Have a nice weekend!
>> Best regards
>> mcc
>>
>
> Maybe you should try the latest unstable drivers.
>
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36
>
> I'm in the middle of a download but I may try that in a little while.  
> See if it helps any.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

Never mind, just saw you are already using that version.  I may test 
that in a bit to see if it does the same for me.  If I have the same 
problem, then we know what the problem is.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[meino.cramer]

Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> [11-02-19 14:16]:
> Dale wrote:
> >meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >>Hi Dale,
> >>
> >>I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge...
> >>on a daily basis.
> >>
> >>I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36.
> >>
> >>May be our problems can be abstracted to "the flash player get lost
> >>control over its own video overlay area"...
> >>
> >>I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick
> >>(hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally
> >>perform, hahahaha! :))
> >>
> >>Hopefully another wizard will tune in...
> >>
> >>Have a nice weekend!
> >>Best regards
> >>mcc
> >>
> >
> >Maybe you should try the latest unstable drivers.
> >
> >x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36
> >
> >I'm in the middle of a download but I may try that in a little while.  
> >See if it helps any.
> >
> >Dale
> >
> >:-)  :-)
> >
> 
> Never mind, just saw you are already using that version.  I may test 
> that in a bit to see if it does the same for me.  If I have the same 
> problem, then we know what the problem is.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 
> 

Ok, I was too fast in answering your previous posting, sorry...

Even if the symptons are the same, the reasons may be different...

Best regards,
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[meino.cramer]

Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> [11-02-19 14:12]:
> meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >Hi Dale,
> >
> >I didn't change any hardware, I only update via eix-syc; emerge...
> >on a daily basis.
> >
> >I am using nvidia-drivers-260-19-36.
> >
> >May be our problems can be abstracted to "the flash player get lost
> >control over its own video overlay area"...
> >
> >I am completly helpless in this case, since this kind of magick
> >(hardware related vido voodoo) isn't the kind of magick I normally
> >perform, hahahaha! :))
> >
> >Hopefully another wizard will tune in...
> >
> >Have a nice weekend!
> >Best regards
> >mcc
> >
> >   
> 
> Maybe you should try the latest unstable drivers.
> 
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36
> 
> I'm in the middle of a download but I may try that in a little while.  
> See if it helps any.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 

My mail, you are citeing, says, that I am already using this version
of the nvidia driver...

[gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[James]

 <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:



> got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and
> may other parts.

Well, I was "noodling" around the net about video (VP8) and there
seems to be a war brewing. As you know, Google is has open sourced
VP8 as a replacement for H.264. It seems that the web browser
groups each pay millions of dollars per year to be able to give
away a browser that supports h.264 streaming video.

h.264 is everywhere, cell phone apps, HDTV, utube, just to 
name a few. Now Theora was based on an old codec (vp3) I believe.
Google purchased the company that developed VP8 and purports
it to replace h.264.


Naturally MPLA (the stinking lawyers behind h.246) is upset
because the financial rewards of the the patents behind h.264
are worth an enormous sum of money, over the next few decades.
VP8 is not threating that. If you saw my post on Nokia and Microsoft
going down the darkside together (very strange), what I did not
say is that Balmer is pushing the bussword "EcoSystem" composed
of Xbox-live, Office and Bing.

Google has that and more.   Apple has their own "EcoSystem".

Many Browsers will be dropping support for h.264 in the near 
future, and streaming video, at least in the short run,
is now fair game and going to be not interoperable.

Is this your problem? Maybe, maybe not. Drop back a version
and see if it fixes your problem.

Better still, one of the young (smart) kids on this list
prolly (guesses?) knows all about this. If it is not your
problem now, it surely will be *REAL SOON*; as it will
become everybody's problem as the Economic Giants scratch
out and protect their "video EcoSystems". Stock prices
are more of a concern to these titans, than piss_ants
consumuers (that's what they ALL really see in us). So
do not be fool, Google is as big a whore as the rest, imho.
Google has well intentioned folks, but to quote an old addage
"Money talks and Bullshit walks".......


hth,
James

[gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[James]

 <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:


> My system:
> nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe)
> ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
> Phenom X6 1090T

Um, I'm looking for a new system. Who/where did you purchase this system?
Did you get 6G-Sata drivers?

Any one else with a new 6+ processor AMD rig, that got a bargain,
would be keen information (Dale?).


James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[Dale]

James wrote:
>   <meino.cramer<at>  gmx.de>  writes:
>
>
>    
>> My system:
>> nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1) built by MSI (PCIe)
>> ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
>> Phenom X6 1090T
>>      
> Um, I'm looking for a new system. Who/where did you purchase this system?
> Did you get 6G-Sata drivers?
>
> Any one else with a new 6+ processor AMD rig, that got a bargain,
> would be keen information (Dale?).
>
>
> James
>
>    

Mine is 4 core but 6 core ready.  Just didn't have the extra cash at the 
time.  Mine is a Gigabyte GA-770T-USB3 but you may can find similar with 
6Gbs/sec drives for a bit more, especially on sale.  The rest seems to 
be about the same.  I bought all the electronics at newegg except the 
power supply which I got at Tiger Direct.

One thing, buy two 4Gb sticks of ram off the bat.  They are much faster 
in pairs and no need getting smaller ones when you have to remove them 
to upgrade.  I'm up to 8Gbs with another 8Gbs on the way, hopefully DHL 
won't loose these.

Am I happy with my set up, darn skippy.  Oh, sign up for newegg's 
newsletter and they have great sales at times.  I have had zero luck 
with the rebates tho.  Supposed to be here in 10 weeks and I sent them 
both off before Christmas.  They better hurry.  ;-)

I did look at MSI but decided against it.  It seems that Gigabyte has 
the best rated mobos at this time.  That may change but you know.  We 
live in the moment not the future.

I can get you a full list if you need it.  Oh, total cost for a nice rig 
with new monitor and all, about $1,000 or so.  It is built like a tank tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

[Paul Hartman]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:35 AM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and
> may other parts.

Maybe try to set WindowlessDisable=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg