On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:57:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:35:11 Mark Knecht wrote: > > What about Flash in web browsers is not working for you since updating > > to OpenRC? Granted, I run only Firefox-3.6.X but I see no problem that > > I recognize on any of my machines. > > I upgraded to openrc 10 days ago and didn't notice anything untoward, but > after a few days Firefox 3.6.17 started reporting that it couldn't find > Flash. (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player service.) I tried Opera, > Chrome and Seamonkey, and they either said the same or just sat and looked > at me when asked to stream audio. > > I tried re-merging adobe-flash and nspluginwrapper a couple of times and now > the audio streaming runs, but I'm suffering random lockups when cycling > desktops, and I think I remember reading that Flash does sometimes cause > lockups. I'm thinking of removing everything flash and substituting gnash > or something, because I do like to listen to the radio. > > This is an amd64 box. I have only: > > $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords > ~app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1
I believe these may be related to having the oficial nvidia drivers. When having those, it wants to use hardware acceleration and adobe hasn't figured out how to do that properly yet.... -- Joost
