Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: [...] This sounded really promising. I was going to try it. But now the stupid computer won't boot past setting the system clock in Linux. Still works fine in Windows. Time to reinstall again, I suppose. This is becoming stupid. I sincerely hope

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-14 06:30, Carl Fink wrote: But now the stupid computer won't boot past setting the system clock in Linux. Still works fine in Windows. This happens occasionally on my lenny thinkpad as well ;-( (Last kernel upgrade?) Usually it will reboot just fine. HTH, Johannes

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Carl Fink engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:18:25AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: --} On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: --} [...] --} This sounded really promising.  I was going to try it. --} --} But now the stupid computer

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:18:25AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: [...] This sounded really promising. I was going to try it. But now the stupid computer won't boot past setting the system clock in Linux. Still works fine in Windows. Time to reinstall

Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
This is deeply weird and should be impossible. On an HP DV6100 laptop running a freshly-updated Lenny, I use Iceweasel 3 and the Flash library from Adobe, also updated today. I reinstalled Lenny last week. Starting Friday (I didn't use the laptop over the weekend) and continuing today (Monday),

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Carl Fink wrote: This is deeply weird and should be impossible. On an HP DV6100 laptop running a freshly-updated Lenny, I use Iceweasel 3 and the Flash library from Adobe, also updated today. I reinstalled Lenny last week. Starting Friday (I didn't use the laptop over the weekend) and

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/13/08 10:50, Carl Fink wrote: This is deeply weird and should be impossible. On an HP DV6100 laptop running a freshly-updated Lenny, I use Iceweasel 3 and the Flash library from Adobe, also updated today. I reinstalled Lenny last week. Starting Friday (I didn't use the laptop over the

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On this laptop when were you able to play Captain Disillusion last? Before reinstalling Debian last week. It's not just that, though. Any Flash movie will solidly lock it. For instance, Pandora loads, then the laptop stops. --

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Aioanei Rares
Carl Fink wrote: This is deeply weird and should be impossible. On an HP DV6100 laptop running a freshly-updated Lenny, I use Iceweasel 3 and the Flash library from Adobe, also updated today. I reinstalled Lenny last week. Starting Friday (I didn't use the laptop over the weekend) and

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On this laptop when were you able to play Captain Disillusion last? Before reinstalling Debian last week. It's not just that, though. Any Flash movie will solidly lock it. For instance, Pandora loads, then

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:35:58PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: Iceweasel plus swfdec on an amd64 works like a charm here too...(testing/unstable)...youtube and all that. In my testing earlier this year, swfdec won't run multiple instances, which is a thing I like to do. -- Carl Fink

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:16:25PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: It seems to me you can only try a different Lenny or distribution. Those people that said WFM you don't know what kernel they are running. You mentioned Knoppix: are you able to play a Flash movie on that? Like someone said in

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread David Witbrodt
Hi Carl, It's not just that, though. Any Flash movie will solidly lock it. For instance, Pandora loads, then the laptop stops. I don't know if my experience will help, but when the 'flashplugin-nonfree' package was updated to the 1.7.* series, I started experiencing freezes for about 30

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:50:02AM -0400, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I can see a badly-behaved Flash plugin killing Firefox/Iceweasel. I can even see it freezing X. How can it freeze the script running in the VT? It's a really solid freeze--not only do ctrl-alt-f1 and

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:51:36PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: I don't know if my experience will help, but when the 'flashplugin-nonfree' package was updated to the 1.7.* series, I started experiencing freezes for about 30 seconds at a time just using my ISP's webmail interface. I ended

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:51:36PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: ... ran the suggested command line incantation in the bug report, update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so then ran Iceweasel again. The result was that 1.7.2 now works as good for me as 1.6.3 ever did. Hey, did you

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread David Witbrodt
... ran the suggested command line incantation in the bug report, update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so then ran Iceweasel again. The result was that 1.7.2 now works as good for me as 1.6.3 ever did. Hey, did you know that flashplugin-nonfree was removed from Lenny