[SOLVED]flash sometimes freezes everything, except for the mouse

Tux the penguin · 2011-07-16 18:24:44

I was using the latest flash in the repos, and sometimes, while viewing youtube videos, my computer freezes up completely and I have to do a hard reboot, though sometimes it will resume fine again after 30 sec to a minute. I can move the mouse, but I can't switch ttys or do anything else. This usually happens while switching to another video, like typing in a search and leaving the current video, but not always. sometimes just at seemingly random times. I switched to the flashplugin-beta package from the aur, which fixed the overlay issue, but I still have the freezes. I use chromium in E17. Also, it has frozen in the ad before a video. I don't know if this happens in firefox or other browsers or if it is specific to chromium. I have seen this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=109429 but it didn't help. Is there anything I can do, other than wait for a stable release that works right lol?

Last edited by Tux the penguin (2011-07-21 02:06:29)

jeslinmx · 2011-07-17 03:01:37

I had the same problem a while ago using the Square beta. Never did work out what happened, but it was fixed for me after I had to freshly install arch for something else. Would be curious to find out what happened though.

jeslinmx · 2011-07-17 03:02:23

Come to think of it, what drivers might you be using?

itisteve · 2011-07-17 16:27:27

Are you using a compositor? I have this problem when I am *NOT* using one, very strange.

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Tux the penguin · 2011-07-17 17:27:13

jeslinmx wrote:

Come to think of it, what drivers might you be using?

I'm using the nvidia 275.09.07-1 driver. i have a geforce 8200

itisteve wrote:

Are you using a compositor? I have this problem when I am *NOT* using one, very strange.

no I'm not. i'll install ecomorph again and see if it still happens. e17's built in 1 is too slow, so it is turned off. come to think of it, I don't think I had any flash problems while using a ecomorph, not even the overlay. I think it was fine when I used compiz too...
EDIT: just updated to nvidia 275.19-1

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Tux the penguin · 2011-07-19 19:14:58

now everytime I attempt to view a flash youtube video ( I try to use html5, but not all videos do), it freezes right at the beginning, not when switching videos and not just sometimes. Also, it resumed by itself everytime (30-60 seconds). I also tried using ecomorph (ecomp at least, ecomorph was turned of I think. I do know that compositing was enabled) which made no difference. I will also try compiz on lxde...

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hokstein · 2011-07-21 00:06:20

I had the same problem here. Using flashplugin-beta 11.0.1.60-2 and nvidia 275.19-1 on x86_64. Following a tip in the AUR comments, I disabled hardware acceleration in the flash plugin options and that seemed to fix it.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47230

Tux the penguin · 2011-07-21 01:58:08

I commented

EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1

, assuming that was hardware acceleration and it is fine now. thanks, hokstein. I didn't do it at first, because I saw another post saying to enable that, so yeah... thanks for the help.

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#1 2011-07-16 18:24:44

[SOLVED]flash sometimes freezes everything, except for the mouse

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