On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 14:54:29 Carl Fletcher wrote:

On 08/09/12 14:50, ianseeks wrote:

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Hi

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.

I can't watch BBC iplayer in any browser, Firefox,Opera, Chrome - the plug in crashes. I've tried downgrading to the 11.4 flash but the same thing happens.

Does anyone have any ideas what i can do next?

regards

IAN

Maybe try this https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/12.1_Misc/flash_hwaccel.png

It's fine for me Ian

Thanks but if i right-click i get Browser options, not the chance to configure Flash. is there another way to change it? if i run flash-player from CLI i get: WARNING: Environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING set and it is not UTF-8 Illegal instruction -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 17:20:30 Carl Fletcher wrote:

On 08/09/12 16:23, ianseeks wrote:

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On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 14:54:29 Carl Fletcher wrote:

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On 08/09/12 14:50, ianseeks wrote:

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Hi

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.

I can't watch BBC iplayer in any browser, Firefox,Opera, Chrome - the plug in crashes. I've tried downgrading to the 11.4 flash but the same thing happens.

Does anyone have any ideas what i can do next?

regards

IAN

Maybe try this https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/12.1_Misc/flash_hwaccel.png

It's fine for me Ian

Thanks but if i right-click i get Browser options, not the chance to configure Flash. is there another way to change it? if i run flash-player from CLI i get: WARNING: Environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING set and it is not UTF-8 Illegal instruction

Go to a iplayer video as if ready to press play, but not playing Right click on the video and you should see 'settings' as one of the options in the flash player context menu

i've tried that, i only get the browser context menus. i'll have to attach some pngs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 18:28:14 Carl Fletcher wrote:

On 08/09/12 17:43, ianseeks wrote:

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i've tried that, i only get the browser context menus.

Ummm.... Do you need a video guide? maybe. when i select the program to watch, i dont even get the first frame. if you get the first frame the right click gives you the flash config menu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 08/09/12 18:58, ianseeks wrote:

On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 18:28:14 Carl Fletcher wrote:

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On 08/09/12 17:43, ianseeks wrote:

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i've tried that, i only get the browser context menus. Ummm.... Do you need a video guide? maybe. when i select the program to watch, i dont even get the first frame. if you get the first frame the right click gives you the flash config menu https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3e0lLG3OdqEcWZQejR6VmpTZHM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 09/09/12 04:32, ianseeks wrote:

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On 08/09/12 18:58, ianseeks wrote:

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On 08/09/12 17:43, ianseeks wrote:

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i've tried that, i only get the browser context menus. Ummm.... Do you need a video guide? maybe. when i select the program to watch, i dont even get the first

On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 18:28:14 Carl Fletcher wrote: frame. if you get the first frame the right click gives you the flash config menu https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3e0lLG3OdqEcWZQejR6VmpTZHM

On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 19:21:39 Carl Fletcher wrote: thanks but i can't get that flash menu to disable it, it crashes before then. i need a way to disable it via the cli or a config program

Are you using an existing /.mozilla from an earlier version of oS or even from a 32-bit system but now you have a 64-bit system? What you are probably suffering from is that the symlink in /.mozilla plugins is not pointing to the correct flashplayer.so file. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.9.1 & kernel 3.5.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Sunday 09 Sep 2012 16:11:56 Basil Chupin wrote:

On 09/09/12 04:32, ianseeks wrote:

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On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 19:21:39 Carl Fletcher wrote:

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On 08/09/12 18:58, ianseeks wrote:

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On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 18:28:14 Carl Fletcher wrote:

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On 08/09/12 17:43, ianseeks wrote:

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i've tried that, i only get the browser context menus.

Ummm.... Do you need a video guide?

maybe. when i select the program to watch, i dont even get the first frame. if you get the first frame the right click gives you the flash config menu

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3e0lLG3OdqEcWZQejR6VmpTZHM

thanks but i can't get that flash menu to disable it, it crashes before then. i need a way to disable it via the cli or a config program

Are you using an existing /.mozilla from an earlier version of oS or even from a 32-bit system but now you have a 64-bit system?

What you are probably suffering from is that the symlink in /.mozilla plugins is not pointing to the correct flashplayer.so file.

BC

Its on the 32bit version of opensuse 12.2. Everything worked well on 11.4 which appears to have the same version of Flash. I've tried the latest versions Opera, Firefox, Chrome and they all get the same result. I've also tried running "flashplayer ~/file.swf" and it bombs out with an "Illegal Instruction" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Sunday 09 Sep 2012 18:35:53 Basil Chupin wrote:

On 09/09/12 17:26, ianseeks wrote:

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On Sunday 09 Sep 2012 16:11:56 Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 09/09/12 04:32, ianseeks wrote:

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On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 19:21:39 Carl Fletcher wrote:

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On 08/09/12 18:58, ianseeks wrote:

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On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 18:28:14 Carl Fletcher wrote: > On 08/09/12 17:43, ianseeks wrote: >> i've tried that, i only get the browser context menus. > > Ummm.... > Do you need a video guide?

maybe. when i select the program to watch, i dont even get the first frame. if you get the first frame the right click gives you the flash config menu

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3e0lLG3OdqEcWZQejR6VmpTZHM

thanks but i can't get that flash menu to disable it, it crashes before then. i need a way to disable it via the cli or a config program

Are you using an existing /.mozilla from an earlier version of oS or even from a 32-bit system but now you have a 64-bit system?

What you are probably suffering from is that the symlink in /.mozilla plugins is not pointing to the correct flashplayer.so file.

BC

Its on the 32bit version of opensuse 12.2. Everything worked well on 11.4 which appears to have the same version of Flash.

I've tried the latest versions Opera, Firefox, Chrome and they all get the same result. I've also tried running "flashplayer ~/file.swf" and it bombs out with an "Illegal Instruction"

Interesting. I had another person in another place who had the exact same problem as you are having. On my advice he even re-installed the system - but still the problem with flash. The bottom line was that the wrong flash was being accessed - which is why I suggested the symlink error.

BC

THanks for the reply though. I've found my system keeps freezing as well so maybe this old laptop is getting out of range for a modern OS. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 11 Sep 2012 14:45:29 Graham Anderson wrote:

On Saturday 08 Sep 2012 14:50:40 ianseeks wrote:

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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

Thanks Graham. I've tried Chrome as well and its the same situation. It works okay on 11.4 with the same version of Flash. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 12 Sep 2012 10:08:51 C wrote:

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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.

Thanks Graham. I've tried Chrome as well and its the same situation. It works okay on 11.4 with the same version of Flash.

Did you try Chrome or Chromium? They are different. Chrome is Google's binary release, and Chromium is the open source edition. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome

Chrome has the non-free Flash rolled in, and Chromium will use whatever Flash is installed on your system (ie, the exact same Flash that is crashing on your computer).

C.

Only tried Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Konq - all results the same. I've even downgraded flash to the verion on the 11.4 repos. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 12 Sep 2012 18:45:16 C wrote:

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:35 PM, ianseeks wrote:

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On Wednesday 12 Sep 2012 10:08:51 C wrote:

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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.

Thanks Graham. I've tried Chrome as well and its the same situation. It works okay on 11.4 with the same version of Flash.

Did you try Chrome or Chromium? They are different. Chrome is Google's binary release, and Chromium is the open source edition. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome

Chrome has the non-free Flash rolled in, and Chromium will use whatever Flash is installed on your system (ie, the exact same Flash that is crashing on your computer).

C.

Only tried Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Konq - all results the same. I've even downgraded flash to the verion on the 11.4 repos.

OK... but the point being here is if you installed *Chromium* from the openSUSE repositories... you aren't getting anything different with Flash... all the browsers you tried from teh openSUSE repos are all using the version of Flash that is crashing on you. What is being suggested here is to install the *Chrome* browser... which you have to DL separately from Google - you cannnot install it from the openSUSE repositories. Chromium in the repos does not have the non-free Flash rolled into the browser.

C.

I had downloaded it from Google. I uninstalled it, redownloaded it and reinstalled and still the same issue. It gived 2 messages 1. Cannot load shockwave flash 2. SHockwave FLash has crashed. So the list of failed browsers with flash is Opera, Konq, Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, and running flash from CLI. Either is a problem with 12.2 and its related libraries ( i doubt it) or my old laptop has hit a wall, i did buy it in 2004. (i think maybe this is the reason but it would be nice to confirm) regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org