On 08/07/2013 05:04 PM, John Hupp wrote:
For what it's worth, I have just found that the workaround detailed in
Comment #1 in the bug report
(http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1178982) does
work. On my system there was no existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, so I
created it and added the specified lines as the sole content of the file.
The colors and the proper window size were restored. This Dell has an
Intel 845G chipset, so this workaround may fix this problem on any
motherboard with the same chipset (or even other Intel chipsets that
use the same Intel driver).
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Verging strictly off-topic, but remaining with the question of getting
Flash to work decently well:
On this former XP machine with a Celeron 2.4 GHz and 1 GB RAM, YouTube
videos in the default window size and playing at 360p seemed to
perform normally. Likewise, video from Hulu can be set to a lower
quality to help assure continuous play. But video from Vimeo can only
be set to HD-Off (if HD is available). And with video from the
broadcast network sites CBS.com, NBC.com and ABC.com, you can only
change screen size. So it seems that videos from Vimeo, CBS, NBC and
ABC offer very little accommodation for lower-spec setups. And
relatedly, I find that video that plays OK on a Windows PC with a dual
core Intel E2200 @ 2.20 GHz -- even with just 1.3 Mbps download on my
DSL service -- plays badly on the 2.4 GHz Celeron using the same
Internet connection. So in this case processing power is more
important than Internet connection speed.
2.4 GHz is the minimum required spec for Flash (the last I knew), but
perhaps that merely means that you'll be able to play *something*
(like YouTube or Hulu videos at a lower-quality setting), not that
you'll be able to play everything.
Does anyone know if there is a way to lower the quality settings for
sites like Vimeo, CBS, NBC and ABC, even if there is no
quality-setting tool in the player interface? (Or does anyone differ
with the assessment I offer above?)
John:
Thank you very much for your reply.
There's a lot of really good information in it.
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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