From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:03:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=tdsn=9Ot8ryVxq5_LLQRwe+MJhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372164.KPJEMvIlTS@eve>
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> 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....
>
> --
> Joost
I do use the ~amd64 nvidia-driver & flash here and haven't seen any
problems, although I don't make a lot of use of Flash in Linux but
rather do most media watching in a Win XP VM.
- Mark
mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic flash
[I] www-plugins/adobe-flash (10.3.181.14-r1@05/14/11): Adobe Flash Player
mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic nvidia
[I] dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk (3.2@01/31/11): NVIDIA CUDA Software
Development Kit
[I] dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit (3.2@01/31/11): NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
[I] media-video/nvidia-settings (260.19.29@01/26/11): NVIDIA Linux X11
Settings Utility
[I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers (270.41.06@05/11/11): NVIDIA X11 driver
and GLX libraries
Found 4 matches.
mark@c2stable ~ $
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 16:57 [gentoo-user] Flash lockups Peter Humphrey
2011-05-18 18:05 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-05-18 19:03 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2011-05-18 23:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-05-19 0:23 ` Adam Carter
2011-05-19 1:00 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-05-19 1:28 ` Stroller
2011-05-19 1:41 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-05-19 3:56 ` Stroller
2011-05-19 22:03 ` Mick
2011-05-19 22:05 ` Mick
2011-05-20 17:00 ` Stroller
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