Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I noticed something weird but I'm not sure what to even search for to > get a fix. When I play a video with Seamonkey or Firefox, then close > the tab or close the browser, the video is still there. If the video > contains text, it is really noticeable. It's like a freeze frame of > what ever was there when I closed the tab or browser. It does this in > both Seamonkey and Firefox. The video affects my desktop wallpaper or > background, Konsole, Kpatience, and any other program I have open. It > is weird. Some programs like Konsole, which is running as root, just > sort of distort in some weird way. The only way to correct this > weirdness is to log out of KDE and back in. That returns everything > back to normal. Closing the app I was using to play the video does not > work. > > If I use Firefox and download helper to capture the video and save it, I > can play the video with Smplayer with no ill effects. It plays and > closes just fine. It's just when I use Seamonkey or Firefox that this > happens. > > I have upgraded the kernel and had upgrades to both Seamonkey and > Firefox. I have recompiled the nvidia drivers as well. The nvidia > drivers, kernel and other info is here: > > root@fireball / # equery list seamonkey > [ Searching for package 'seamonkey' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] www-client/seamonkey-2.0.14 (0) > root@fireball / # equery list firefox > [ Searching for package 'firefox' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] www-client/firefox-3.6.17 (0) > root@fireball / # equery list nvidia > [ Searching for package 'nvidia' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-260.19.29 (0) > [I--] [ ~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.44 (0) > root@fireball / # equery list xorg > [ Searching for package 'xorg' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.9 (0) > [I--] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.5 (0) > root@fireball / # uname -r > 2.6.38-gentoo-r3 > root@fireball / # > > I have not tried a emerge -e world yet. I may do that when KDE 4.6.3 is > released. > > Does anyone have any clue as to what could cause this? If you need more > info, let me know. > > Thanks. > > Dale
If you're using official drivers for your video cards Flash Hardware acceleration is activated. But it doesn't work well in Linux. Right click on a flash video, click on setting, and then the display tab. Disable hardware acceleration. That generally fixes the problem you describe. Good luck.
