[gentoo-user] Re: videos that won't go away.
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: videos that won't go away.
masterprometheus masterprometheus...@gmail.com [11-05-08 15:08]: 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. Quick add here: The adobe flash settings go into the same file below ~/.macromedia which also holds a list of the sites you visited (and also the names of the videos you watched may be...). These list can be read next time when you use flash video. When deleting it (this can be done automagically with a firefox addon) you will get the unwanted hardware acceleration as the default. If you dont delete it...well, you can do with your data what you want, and may be others too... ;) Best regards mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: videos that won't go away.
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 03:19:37PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote Quick add here: The adobe flash settings go into the same file below ~/.macromedia which also holds a list of the sites you visited (and also the names of the videos you watched may be...). These list can be read next time when you use flash video. When deleting it (this can be done automagically with a firefox addon) you will get the unwanted hardware acceleration as the default. If you dont delete it...well, you can do with your data what you want, and may be others too... ;) Idea... 1) set acceleration on/off as desired 2) exit your browser entirely 3) edit the file to remove the list of sites visited, but leave the acceleration setting as desired 4) chmod 440 on the file Re; the Firefox addin to remove the file; I don't need no steenkin Firefox addin to remove the file... waltdnes@i3 ~ $ crontab -l # MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK COMMAND 1-56/5 * * * * if [ -d /home/waltdnes/.macromedia ] ; then rm -rf /home/waltdnes/.macromedia/ ; fi /home/waltdnes/.messages 21 -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
