On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
I thought I'd report back that while Flash continues to crash on this machine only even with updates to both Firefox & adobe-flash, I tried Google Chrome this morning and it works perfectly. I appears the root cause of this problem would be Firefox, not Flash or nvidia-drivers, and I once again have a solution for watching Flash-based media, at least for the short term. My thinking at this point is that Google is going to drive a solution that keeps YouTube users happy. I doubt long-term they'll let Adobe, a much smaller company, control their future... :-) Cheers, Mark
