On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> [12-04-28 00:20]: >> 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 did not find any tag in that file, which allows to disable hardeware > acceleration. > > Or did I miss one?
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0 maybe it's not in the default file... mine has been changed a lot :) it was mentioned in the flash player release notes. You can also right-click on a non-crashing clash object and change the settings using GUI, disabling the acceleration is in there, too.
