[gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

[gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

[Michael Crute]

Hi Everybody,

I recently had a tragedy on my system (long story). In any case now
when I try to play any Flash file in a browser (Firefox or Opera) all
I get is a grey block where the presentation should be. Right clicking
results in the usual flash menu, the cursor will even change to a hand
when placed over links in the presentation and sound plays (e.g.
Google Video or YouTube). The only problem is that all I see is a big
grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas?

-Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

[Daniel Iliev]

Michael Crute wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I recently had a tragedy on my system (long story). In any case now
> when I try to play any Flash file in a browser (Firefox or Opera) all
> I get is a grey block where the presentation should be. Right clicking
> results in the usual flash menu, the cursor will even change to a hand
> when placed over links in the presentation and sound plays (e.g.
> Google Video or YouTube). The only problem is that all I see is a big
> grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas?
>
> -Mike
>
Have you already tried "emerge -C net-www/netscape-flash ; emerge
net-www/netscape-flash"?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

[Michael Crute]

On 9/30/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
> > The only problem is that all I see is a big
> > grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas?
> >
> >
> Have you already tried "emerge -C net-www/netscape-flash ; emerge
> net-www/netscape-flash"?

Yeah, several times, it doesn't seem to help. I also deleted my
~/.macromedia folder which didn't help.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

[Daniel Iliev]

Michael Crute wrote:
> On 9/30/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
>> > The only problem is that all I see is a big
>> > grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas?
>> >
>> >
>> Have you already tried "emerge -C net-www/netscape-flash ; emerge
>> net-www/netscape-flash"?
>
> Yeah, several times, it doesn't seem to help. I also deleted my
> ~/.macromedia folder which didn't help.
>
Well I have only two more (stupid) ideas:

1) Have tried to start your browser with the factory settings?
E.g. "mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak" and start it. It doesn't matter if
it works or not it's only for the test. Then you can revert to your
settings by "rm -r ~/.mozilla && mv ~/.mozilla-bak ~/.mozilla"

2) Are you sure you are not trying to play a flash version 8? Because
AFAIK there is no flash-8 for linux yet. ;-(


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Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

[Michael Crute]

On 10/1/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
> Michael Crute wrote:
> > On 9/30/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
> >> > The only problem is that all I see is a big
> >> > grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas?
>
> 1) Have tried to start your browser with the factory settings?
> E.g. "mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak" and start it. It doesn't matter if
> it works or not it's only for the test. Then you can revert to your
> settings by "rm -r ~/.mozilla && mv ~/.mozilla-bak ~/.mozilla"

I did try that but it didn't help.

> 2) Are you sure you are not trying to play a flash version 8? Because
> AFAIK there is no flash-8 for linux yet. ;-(

Hmm... I have tried quite a few sites, I can't imagine ALL of them
have spontaneously changed to Flash 8.

It seems almost like an X rendering issue. Is there something about
Modular X that flash hates?

-Mike

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