On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 14:50:40 ianseeks wrote:
I've installed 12.2 on my ASUS AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ with Radeon RV350NP (uses xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd). Flash-player 11.2.202.238-2.3.1 is installed.
Recent versions of the Linux flash player provided by adobe have started to appear with architecture specific SSE2 compile time optimisations and some of the code was making the player segfault on systems that have no SSE2 extension. I believe this this case for the Athlon XP-M family of cpu's. I have no clue if this is still the case with the current release, and it's hard to tell by disassembling the current binary because there could be SSE2 only code who's path is never invoked on non SSE2 cpu systems. The problem is of course is that there's very little that can be changed with the situation because flash is of course proprietary and closed, and also now no longer developed for Linux. Probably the official Chrome browser with Google's ongoing flash support and baked in flash player is the best bet for flash sites on certain AMD systems. Cheers the noo, Graham -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org