Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:24:04 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: R: Recent mouse freeze problem with X, different window managers, any browser and flash. Message-ID: <20110112162404.1bb3db2c@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20110112070910.148639nri1yt6fc4@econet.encontacto.net> References: <30407800.3251371294783096175.JavaMail.root@wmail14> <20110112070910.148639nri1yt6fc4@econet.encontacto.net>
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:09:10 -0600 eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> wrote: > Quoting Barbara <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it>: > > > > >>> > >>> For a week or so, with up to date, current, ports, etc. everytime I > >>> open a page that has automatic flash video my mouse freezes and I have > >>> to manually kill X and restart. I had worked fine for many months. > >>> Yesterday I rebuilt all linux emulation. All ports are up to date as > >>> of today. I have no idea where to look. > >>> > >>> Anyone else seen this or know where to look. > >>> > >>> thanks, > >>> > >> > >>> From what I can see, on CURRENT most of the flash objects are triggering a > > X > >> error. > >> I can see it on the console where I started X, but I don't remember it now. > >> I'll post il later. > >> Anyway Xorg is still working after that. > >> > >> Barbara > > > > I think that it could be related to this message: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-December/021997.html > > even if I'm on i386 > > Thanks, Barbara. I am on i386 also. It sounds as though it could > very well be but I would expect others to be seeing something similar. > The kernel that I am using was built and rebooted from yesterday's > sources with hopes that the problem would just "go away" same with > world and ports but no cigar. It is still the same and I don't have > an old enough kernel to go back to so I guess I will just have to wait > until something changes. > > Have a great day, > I'm running 9-current on amd64 and have experienced no problems with flash using linux-opera, which is what I use to view flash content. Otherwise I use linux-firefox with the flash plugin disabled. Assuming you use firefox you could try a) installing a flash blocker b) installing NoScript, since it basically automatically blocks the execution of java scripts, etc., which might help c) checking Tools->Add-Ons->Plugins to see whether you can disable flash (not sure about this, but it works with linux-firefox) -- Gary Jennejohn
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