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Natanji

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 133

Flash video image problem with newest nVidia driver

I've got a very weird display error since the last update. Basically, whenever I play flash video and afterwards close the browser (chromium), any purely black surfaces will display the full flash player image. The effect is only visible in the "first" window of a xmonad tab, that means if I cycle the window positions it will be in a different window. The others are not affected. When I restart X, I can see the flash video image flashing up shortly on the black screen. Restarting X fixes the issue. I cannot take any screenshot of the problem because the error is NOT visible on the screenshot. Therefore I suspect that some frame buffer used for the flash player is not getting cleared properly after exiting the browser, but it's really little more than a wild guess.

As there are multiple components involved, I'm at a loss of where this might be coming from. I hope someone might be able to shed some light on this situation. Please post here if you have the same problem or have any idea why this happens!

My setup:
-nvidia 260.19.36-2
-flashplugin 10.2.152.27-1
-chromium 9.0.597.94-1
-xmonad 0.9.2-1
-xmonad-contrib 0.9.2-1

Last edited by Natanji (2011-02-15 11:33:11)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: Flash video image problem with newest nVidia driver

Try disabling hardware acceleration in flashplayer
Rt click -> Settings... -> Display tab

Natanji

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 133

Re: Flash video image problem with newest nVidia driver

Thanks, that seems like it helped. So this is a flashplayer bug? Was it already reported?

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: Flash video image problem with newest nVidia driver

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113565
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113277
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113338
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113417

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Flash video image problem with newest nVidia driver

Thanks, that seems like it helped. So this is a flashplayer bug? Was it already reported?

if you asking about a bug reported on arch linux bugtracker, then you are doing it the wrong way.

flash and nvidia are closed source, we can't do anything. A better place is to submit bugs to nvidia and adobe.

Now i see that nvidia 270.26 was released. Maybe you want to check that out:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=159683

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