From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:08:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2O+dJ004obXLrDAmLBUkgdP77H_Op4G=ESrxzxu+LyUyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120427223434.GA3096@solfire>
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> [12-04-28 00:20]:
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> 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?
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0
maybe it's not in the default file... mine has been changed a lot :)
it was mentioned in the flash player release notes.
You can also right-click on a non-crashing clash object and change the
settings using GUI, disabling the acceleration is in there, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-27 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-27 20:22 [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing Mark Knecht
2012-04-27 20:48 ` Paul Hartman
2012-04-27 21:45 ` Mark Knecht
2012-04-27 22:26 ` Matthew Marlowe
2012-04-27 22:30 ` Paul Hartman
2012-04-27 22:31 ` Dale
2012-04-27 22:34 ` meino.cramer
2012-04-27 23:08 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-04-29 1:19 ` meino.cramer
2012-04-29 8:25 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-06 15:28 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-06 16:10 ` Alecks Gates
2012-05-06 16:39 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-06 19:33 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-01 3:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
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