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j3doucet

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Registered: 2013-05-31

Posts: 1

Solid black screens in flash based websites, under chromium.

Been using chromium (from [extra])  as my primary web browser for 8 months or so.

In late April, I updated flashplugin as part of a general upgrade. Flash no longer worked at all in chromium, so my quick and dirty solution was to swap flashplugin for pepper-flash from the AUR. This worked for some websites, but on others I just got a fully black screen. The cursor changes when I move the mouse, and I can even click on links present on the page, but none of the graphics render.

I have verified that, on the same system, firefox is happy to view the websites in question, so it seems to be some combination of chromium, flash, and certain flash-based websites. On some websites, a rendered page will even flash briefly before being replaced with the same solid black foreground.

I'm not entirely sure where to start with the diagnosis of  this issue. Long time Linux/Solaris user, recent Arch convert. Any advice would be much appreciated.

axelectrik

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Registered: 2012-01-25

Posts: 126

Re: Solid black screens in flash based websites, under chromium.

Probably it could be fixed by enabling/disabling the GPU accelerated composition or WebGL

goodgrue

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From: CA, USA

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 41

Re: Solid black screens in flash based websites, under chromium.

Same problem here. I worked around it by disabling hardware acceleration as suggested by axelectrik, but it's not a very satisfying solution. It'd be great to get acceleration working somehow.

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goodgrue

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From: CA, USA

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 41

Re: Solid black screens in flash based websites, under chromium.

I just installed lib32-nouveau-dri and re-enabled acceleration, and the problem seems to be gone. I'm not sure if anything is actually being accelerated, but I'm not getting any more black screens.

Update: they're back =[.

Last edited by goodgrue (2013-06-15 21:39:20)