Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Wednesday 18 May 2011 19:05:28 Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:57:55 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I believe these may be related to having the oficial nvidia drivers.
> When having those, it wants to use hardware acceleration and adobe hasn't
> figured out how to do that properly yet....

I realised a second after clicking Send that I hadn't said I'm using the 
nouveau driver. I don't have nvidia-drivers installed.

So it isn't that.

-- 
Rgds
Peter