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 1SNs7L-0008NV-Db for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:50:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89D77E0A61; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:50:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (mail-lb0-f181.google.com [209.85.217.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86920E09E7 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbgi11 with SMTP id gi11so884779lbb.40 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:48:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=i4EsERFyUz1MyOSf+YuVBjyImpTbUEXbrvtjaYvhZ2M=; b=fghx41k72Bdvi2DdowvbY8htDlHvW/2tOHTNzG6lTfwdAJfq0uC4OHTk37A1OJ0Iid VUiu7kRJM4byijTMXJZApIHrmURFAaPkghZBbem5Kouxo5AUQW5itTcq94wQePwvmSom sukLyxi/BI2L/+3jYC6uIejT1b/IvyalLqdogTvE/pfWISC/FlFWuhccp7Fyv4SKPbGp Y2ml0PTU4S1x5clXxr/90T+zWkpFaAamoW67XepGNwXaWRZyenmSY5Y4c9nytXE4DbM1 fcg9dEVYghFJLMy5rR6KpEhUD8HQKSKJOS6Ce0gfl4ivPRCZnUsdMcW14mMj7Dv6fQGY /URw== Received: by 10.152.146.163 with SMTP id td3mr11909945lab.25.1335559704422; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:48:24 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.35.108 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:48:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:48:04 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: DxfvRDJISfzMI8l5zenTseeSKso Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 044cb726-bebb-46b5-b8a6-44aa02190cd4 X-Archives-Hash: 97caba16d6882843fe4c06e50386ea0a 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.