On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@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.
