Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:56:34 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: flashplayer amd64(?) issues persist Message-ID: <op.vwqqokqh34t2sn@skeletor.feld.me>
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Ok guys, I really don't know what to say. I wish someone could come stare at my box and witness this because it seems like I'm the only person in existence to have this problem. I've tried -stable, I've tried different flash player / browser / nvidia driver combinations, flash config settings in the mms.cfg, etc etc and I cannot make this problem go away. I've posted pictures before, and it has to do with active flashplayer videos (mostly youtube videos) somehow bleeding into other apps. You can even minimize the browser window and the video is still floating there invisible where it was before you minimized -- just put a terminal window over that area and you can see it again as if you enabled background transparency on the terminal. Open a new tab in the browser and the flash video from the previous tab just starts bleeding through. Very weird. Well, I've run out of ideas and my work machine and home machine are very similar -- hardware is not identical, but software and drivers definitely are. So a weird idea just popped into my head... could it be memory related? My work machine has 4GB of RAM, but my desktop at home has 12GB and I have much, much more video memory (1280MB). Is flash / X / linuxulator / nvidia-driver or some crazy combination causing this because of the amount of memory in my machine? Do others with intermittent flash problems (hard locks, etc) also have a large amount of memory? I don't have the option right now, but this weekend I'll pull out some RAM and see if the problem goes away. Note, the stability of this box is fine, power supply is great, power is cleaned from a good UPS, and I've run extended memtests so I don't believe it's a hardware problem. System is: AMD x6 1100T 12GB RAM Nvidia GTX 470 (currently) FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Cheers, Mark
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