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xgdgsc

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 125

Plasma random freeze when watching video using flash in google-chrome

I recently had 2 random UI freezes when using flash in chrome to watch videos. When it freezes , the video sound still plays quite normally. Anybody seeing this?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,431

Re: Plasma random freeze when watching video using flash in google-chrome

I didn't. Must be you.

Seriously we need more info and more details, what hardware and drivers? Do you have a form of hardware acceleration enabled? What freezes the video or Plasma or both? What makes you think there is a correlation between the two? Console output/journal logs during the affected time?

xgdgsc

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 125

Re: Plasma random freeze when watching video using flash in google-chrome

It is Intel graphics. The flash should have hardware acceleration enabled. Sometimes the mouse can move after the freeze but not the freezed background. I checked X logs and journalctl and didn't find anything related.

Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 886

Re: Plasma random freeze when watching video using flash in google-chrome

Go to chrome://plugins, disable Flash, and reload the page to see if it works with HTML5 video.

Last edited by Morn (2016-06-15 15:49:34)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,431

Re: Plasma random freeze when watching video using flash in google-chrome

Likely one of the current issues with 4.6 kernel and/or xf86-video-intel vs modesetting driver as detailed here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213533

Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 886

Re: Plasma random freeze when watching video using flash in google-chrome

Today my Chrome became unresponsive while Flash audio content was playing; I had to use xkill. This is on AMD/Catalyst though. Maybe just a coincidence? Then again, I do not recall this ever happening before.