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sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 417

Gnome-shell & flash video questions,

Hi all,

Right so I installed Arch on my old laptop this afternoon, a Toshiba Satellite M40 - first of all I was hoping to use Gnome-shell but it seems my old laptop isn't capable of running it.

see there for the specs, the graphic card is an Ati X300 - so once setup if gnome-shell is installed - the gnome screen is blue (the default wallpaper) then nothing else, no error neither. Removing gnome-shell will start gnome with an error that gnome-shell crashed (would be good to know how to solve it)

Then the second questions is regarding flash-video. Running the plugin and firefox youtube's video are running fine, but if I want to watch video from motogp.com (sorry the content is not free) the video is not smooth - so for gnome-shell I can understand the hardware isn't powerful enough but for the flash video I am puzzled and would love to be able to use my old laptop - especially that those video were running fine few month ago on the same laptop running XP.

Many thanks,

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Gnome-shell & flash video questions,

You could try forcing a fallback mode. It needs gnome-panel and metacity to work. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … lback_mode

Flash's performance has always been worse in OSes other than Windows. http://arstechnica.com/software/news/20 … yer-10.ars

the sad clown

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From: 192.168.0.X

Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 837

Re: Gnome-shell & flash video questions,

What is the architecture you are running?

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