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 1SL81W-0006LX-Fo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:12:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9019E0746; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A28E06E8 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738CD1B40B7 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:10:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.439 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.439 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.429, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gEntr9VtZudC for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A31891B409B for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:10:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SL7yn-0002uN-GS for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:10:05 +0200 Received: from athedsl-233228.home.otenet.gr ([85.74.230.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:10:05 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-233228.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:10:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: I switched to the Nvidia video driver Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:09:37 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120418204235.GA1742@waltdnes.org> <20120420063921.GA4526@waltdnes.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-233228.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120330 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120420063921.GA4526@waltdnes.org> X-Archives-Salt: 91df4219-dae1-43a6-ad6e-2bb06d7d4f67 X-Archives-Hash: 862bc848c498e24e119c529cc1727115 On 20/04/12 09:39, Walter Dnes wrote: > A couple of booby-traps for the unwarey... > > 1) There seemes to be a colour translation bug in recent versions of > Flash that only shows with the Nvidia video drivers. Red and blue are > swapped in Flash. If you see people with blue faces, and you're not > watching Avatar, you've hit this bug. The solution is to edit > /etc/adobe/mms.cfg Append the line... > > EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 > > This will work with most Nvidia cards. If that doesn't work, try making > it two lines, namely... > > EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 > OverrideGPUValidation=true > > Note that Flash is quite fragile with these two lines, and the plugin > crashes a lot. A crash-free solution is to leave mms.cfg as-is and instead right click in a flash window, select "Settings" and uncheck the hardware acceleration checkbox. You probably need to restart the browser after that. > 2) Nvidia drivers do not like the mplayer "xv" video output option at > all. It hangs my machine, requiring Magic-Sysrq to shut down > semi-gracefully. Don't use that option with Nvidia drivers. Hmm. Xv is the most stable option for most users.