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 1QMm2x-0002LI-8T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:04:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5822E0495; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E64E0495 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 19:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb7 with SMTP id 7so1240712qwb.40 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 12:03:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=lPrP4mx+nOnWDw0ilSKejo/10wyMhptcNRZnVHJ6KHQ=; b=nXX3bK/3WJcPT1bTExWb87uREeZke4hXhUTpFiIQqWGyykMcAmJuWs8g4GiPTi5kXk aDYQZM8L7oGczSlqsWxpqglGII37mT+RTwA6J5oQLPVd5FSopgwXLURrJ+AC0gCySw/y iMwoIooUsif03+DzDUvlTWWqe8ssRBlryYbJ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=A7snkCQz3eYZxTIRaqWyGervpS5Hjo/H9IVBDfX6rEMT97ulH8bFDTkPCDddTMK5Z5 V3f9lnCMqQXhHYow4cKYZvzXtvbiUVN2TJLGo9LBn4q2T/rQ0u12dyhhxPG0nrW1GsXR 59mi9vedd+5a4rBBnJU2W1IfTBKZiUxl1uNqY= 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 Received: by 10.224.69.225 with SMTP id a33mr1782475qaj.209.1305745389142; Wed, 18 May 2011 12:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.37.147 with HTTP; Wed, 18 May 2011 12:03:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1372164.KPJEMvIlTS@eve> References: <201105181757.56139.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <1372164.KPJEMvIlTS@eve> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:03:08 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 85e9f4b8f33d78800af3c8836169d7ca On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, 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.... > > -- > 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 ~ $