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 1SNtom-0006TI-Ay for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:39:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86F3121C034; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70D2921C028 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2012 22:34:34 -0000 Received: from p548511BD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.17.189] by mail.gmx.net (mp035) with SMTP; 28 Apr 2012 00:34:34 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+CSoV9oaaC+syerNF6iyX0PkAI/EiQd0R6PmHMxr ndZkn1i+fswLSk Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:34:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:34:34 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing Message-ID: <20120427223434.GA3096@solfire> References: 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 039f17b8-b357-4f91-91ba-994738010582 X-Archives-Hash: ce548c89264024efbc2704620e7531f8 Paul Hartman [12-04-28 00:20]: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem. > > Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread. > > > > I run stable Gentoo + a few ~amd64 packages. My video adapter is an > > NVidia 463 GTX. Since the update to adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 a few > > weeks ago all Flash apps crash the plugin within Firefox. I posted a > > bug report here and got shot down for reasons I don't understand. (I > > understand what he said and why he said it, but I didn't understand > > them just giving up without feedback back to Adobe, etc.) > > > > I'm wondering if anyone else has suffered through this to find a > > solution. The nouveau suggestion isn't where I want to go with my > > machines and I'm just not finding any solutions on the web yet. > > > > Anyway, there was at the time a newer (IIRC) or possibly slightly > > older (IIDRC) Flash ebuild but it's been removed from portage. That > > one worked for me. There is a newer version (11.2.202.233) listed on > > the Adobe Flash site but I haven't found info on what it corrects. > > > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > Flash 11.2 added some new kind of hardware acceleration which > apparently doesn't work properly for whatever reason. Disable HW > acceleration in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and cross your fingers... or > downgrade to 11.1. > I did not find any tag in that file, which allows to disable hardeware acceleration. Or did I miss one? Best regards, mcc