On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Joost Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > 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
I do use the ~amd64 nvidia-driver & flash here and haven't seen any problems, although I don't make a lot of use of Flash in Linux but rather do most media watching in a Win XP VM. - Mark mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic flash [I] www-plugins/adobe-flash (10.3.181.14-r1@05/14/11): Adobe Flash Player mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic nvidia [I] dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk (3.2@01/31/11): NVIDIA CUDA Software Development Kit [I] dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit (3.2@01/31/11): NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit [I] media-video/nvidia-settings (260.19.29@01/26/11): NVIDIA Linux X11 Settings Utility [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers (270.41.06@05/11/11): NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries Found 4 matches. mark@c2stable ~ $
