Adobe Flash

[DeBaas]

Is it possible to keep the older version of the Adobe flash player (for a while) in the repo and add the new one so there is a fa(i)llback in case of trouble ?
For now my collors are inverted with the new one after update (solution swith off hardware accelleration)
Got to check the not synced repo's for the older one.....

Ed

[kaptain_zero]

My colors went wonky after the last upgrade as well...

[kaptain_zero]

Ed, how do I turn off hardware acceleration? I've gone through the likely menus but I can't seem to find it.

Regards

Christian

[DeBaas]

In the (inverted) picture rightclick than settings.

[JohnW_57]

There is a fix here: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105228.msg898755.html#msg898755

JohnW

[menotu]

Ed, how do I turn off hardware acceleration? I've gone through the likely menus but I can't seem to find it.

Regards

Christian

As mentioned by DeBaas, right clicking on a video and choose Settings  (I use Firefox)

Note, not all videos show the Settings option - it's sometimes it's greyed out - so you may need to go to Youtube and find a video that shows that option.

The Free Hugs Campaign - Official Page (music by Sick Puppies.net ) video on Youtube allows the option to be set

[littlenoodles]

I'm not having problems with color, but I tried to use Hulu the other day, and the flicker made it unwatchable.  Booted up Ubu 12.04 from CD and Hulu works fine there.  Could this be related to the hardware acceleration issue addressed here?

On PCLOS, I'm using the proprietary nvidia legacy driver (173).  Ubu didn't support that driver, so it ran with nuveau.  Would that have 'turned off acceleration' on Ubu, and somehow have solved the flicker problem in the process?

By the way, why does this forum insist on replacing Ubu with 'another distro' when I type the full name?  Is that just being cute, or is there a real reason for that?

[Texstar]

I'm not having problems with color, but I tried to use Hulu the other day, and the flicker made it unwatchable.  Booted up Ubu 12.04 from CD and Hulu works fine there.  Could this be related to the hardware acceleration issue addressed here?

On PCLOS, I'm using the proprietary nvidia legacy driver (173).  Ubu didn't support that driver, so it ran with nuveau.  Would that have 'turned off acceleration' on Ubu, and somehow have solved the flicker problem in the process?

By the way, why does this forum insist on replacing Ubu with 'another distro' when I type the full name?  Is that just being cute, or is there a real reason for that?

I can't answer your flash flicker because it is a not issue for me with my current graphics driver. I  suspect it could be the case with an old video card and old legacy driver. hulu recommends a dual core cpu for best viewing results. As to your other question, we are not being cute and there is a real reason we have banned the name. It was due to their market dept fan boys can spamming the hell out of our forum trying to leech our userbase.

[DeBaas]

Hey boss, triggered by the 3U name ? 

For now the problem is gone, removed flash and installed the current version from Synaptic.
(Naugty me tested from testing and came running back to the standard Synaptic version)
And no I was NOT running flash from testing before the problems started.
System is fully updated.

A quick check on some testboxes, including one 3U, also some inverted colors

Problem videocards are different nVidia flavors, where the Synaptic version from now has no color problems.

@littlenoodles,
The nouveau driver is also in the PCLinuxOS repo, so check it out

Ed

[littlenoodles]

@DeBaas - I don't want to use the Nuveau driver.  I like my KDE 3D effects, which work fine on my system.  In fact Flash has (mostly) worked fine for me in the past - in YouTube, etc.  Funny, Flash from Vimeo has always stuttered.  Now it does in Hulu too.  Not sure why, but it doesn't seem to have to stutter due to my admittedly old hardware.  I'll try turning off hardware acceleration and see what happens.

[kaptain_zero]

Thanks, that did the trick.

On a secondary note, I notice that if I click on a button in an application but don't move my mouse, the pointer vanishes. This did not happen before and I've not updated my video driver in a long time, that I know of at least. I use an Nvidia card and their drivers as made available in the repos.

Christian

In the (inverted) picture rightclick than settings.

[DeBaas]

Unexpected X shutdown, stuttering flash video, inverted colors.
No I don't want the latest 11.2.202.235-1pclos2012 Adobe Flash Player Plugin.
It came in with the latest updates (again) As fast as possible I downgraded to the 11.1.102.63-1pclos2012.
And see, there are more complaints about this plugin with nVidia on our forum.
Last post from me on this subject till the problems are solved at the Flash site.

Ed