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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:47:18 -0500
From:      Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net>
To:        Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox crash with Flash & Xorg 6.8
Message-ID:  <87022951-149C-4FD5-AB01-AD879B5E89D3@ahze.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041229234815.GC2455@bart.bsd-geek.de>

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On Dec 29, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Lars Engels wrote:


Which flash are you using? www/linux-flashplugin (or 
www/linuxpluginwrapper) works very well.

> Hello!
>
> On my 5.3 Release with Xorg 6.8.1 and Firefox 1.0_6,1 the latter 
> crashes
> when viewing Flashsites. Linuxpluginwrapper and linux-flashplugin is
> installed. Also in xorg.conf:
> Section "Extensions"
>  Option "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
>
> The Error is:
> The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>  (Details: serial 81 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0)
>  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>  To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
> function.)
>
> This problem can be solved by adding
> export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
> into /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox
>
> Could you please add the line in the next verision of Firefox' port? 
> I'm
> sure, I'm not the only one having this problem, when people begin to
> upgrade to Xorg 6.8.1.
>
> Greetings
>
> Lars
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