From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMk5d-0006HZ-Fg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 16:59:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 281B21C179; Wed, 18 May 2011 16:57:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24281C179 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 16:57:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13710DEC39 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 17:57:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84Np2CnCKfpR for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 17:57:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41DADEC07 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 17:57:56 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:57:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105181757.56139.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ea8fdfddd7bbf8cb53105e4481b526ec On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:35:11 Mark Knecht wrote: > What about Flash in web browsers is not working for you since updating > to OpenRC? Granted, I run only Firefox-3.6.X but I see no problem that > I recognize on any of my machines. I upgraded to openrc 10 days ago and didn't notice anything untoward, but after a few days Firefox 3.6.17 started reporting that it couldn't find Flash. (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player service.) I tried Opera, Chrome and Seamonkey, and they either said the same or just sat and looked at me when asked to stream audio. I tried re-merging adobe-flash and nspluginwrapper a couple of times and now the audio streaming runs, but I'm suffering random lockups when cycling desktops, and I think I remember reading that Flash does sometimes cause lockups. I'm thinking of removing everything flash and substituting gnash or something, because I do like to listen to the radio. This is an amd64 box. I have only: $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords ~app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1 -- Rgds Peter