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 1QMqQF-0005G4-Gp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 23:44:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67EC21C010; Wed, 18 May 2011 23:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FD81C010 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 23:43:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D87DEC38 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 00:43:30 +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 Nnve-OcY+PTg for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 00:43:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF138DEC2F for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 00:43:29 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 00:43:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <201105181757.56139.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <1372164.KPJEMvIlTS@eve> In-Reply-To: <1372164.KPJEMvIlTS@eve> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105190043.29000.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bdc5830d09b1e6ef6818b1950c31f6b2 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