flash 11.2 w/ nvidia card colors swapped [Solved] YMMV...

[Fitzcarraldo]

You're welcome, but really the guy to thank is anomaly65, as he is the one who posted the fix (I didn't need to do it myself, as I'm using an AMD ATI GPU).

[anomaly65]

thanks for the kind words, but humbly, we're all a fun and fantastic community.

Quick fix to avoid dealing with an editor (note: even "sudo kwrite /etc/adobe/mms.cfg" would do the trick most of the time; I'm not a nano fan myself, really old school "vi" user!!!)

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sudo echo "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1" >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg


which works for ATI cards as well.

Note that you can erase/replace a config file such as the mentioned above with a single ">" symbole. a double ">>" simply appends your intended line to the existing config.

To remove all the 'extras' try

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sudo rm -i /etc/adobe/*


a "y" in answer to the question shall remove a file, a "n" will leave it in place. In this particular question, a "n" following the "remove /etc/adobe/mms.cfg?" would be the correct answer. Good housekeeping habits like

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sudo mkdir /var/tmp/adobe/* && cp /etc/adobe/* /var/tmp/adobe/


is a good place to start. A full copy of the files (not sub directories) will then exist in /var/tmp/adobe just in case you realize you want to start over.....
Hope that all helps

My own personal rule is, the only bad question is that which you do not ask. We are all part of a community, and I among many others cannot say thankyou enough for all the help I've gotten.

best of luck, and do always ask the question you need help with. That's what the forums are all about, and among the 100+ forums I participate in, Sabayon has some of the most helpful, and respectful members around!!!!
andy

[B3rtm3n]

I had problems at the time too and added this line in the adobe conf. file but I noticed the flash player became extremely buggy so I removed this line.

Now with last updates I suddenly noticed that the colours on Youtube were correct again till I rebooted. (I did equo conf update).

I am using KDE but installed recently Gnome next to it as back up if something goes wrong but Gnome has flash showing the right colours and not switched as on my KDE system.

Is this problem KDE related which would be strange in my opinion? How could I solve this?

[anomaly65]

I have noticed similar bug (particularly in firefox...) with flash-crash with the hardware line in the adobe config file. (hw= geforce 8400 and 9600gt). Chrome (with it's own copy of flash?) is less troublesome.

It was my understanding that a bug in the nvidia driver was the root cause of the original, and should have recently been fixed.

Good luck!
andy

[anomaly65]

Also, a manual search and remove of any 32bit nsplugins of older adobe flash objects is a good thing. I had luck with one friend's machine by removing adobe flash:

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equo remove adobe-flash
rm -i /usr/lib*/nsbrowser/plugins/*libflash*


then reinstalling. I found an older buggy 32 bit object file hanging around causing problems. The machine was 64bit, and the two objects together were problematic.

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equo install adobe-flash


Properly reinstalled it, far fewer problems. Definitely worth a try to see how many [youtube, vimeo, etc] sites have html5 video options as well. Seems to be "almost ready" for primetime in my experience. Somehow this flash thing seems to be adobe's bad idea of how to bring mainstream bugs to "the rest of us"

My own desktop is now running an ATI card (dualheaded mode was a challenge with video tearing until 12.6 driver update....), main reason for change was general HW update and lower power consumption after a decade of nvidia only for my personal use and recommendations. Nvidia and AMD both are thin on resources to support prior generation hardware (but the flash colorswap bug is pretty glaring...). Different set of issues, but the same config for HW acceleration works fine, with lower CPU utilization.

hat tip to the sabayon community. Good friendly and helpful people here!

Cheers,
andy

[B3rtm3n]

Thanks for the advise, unfortunately no change on my system (64 bit & nvidia)

When doing

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rm -i /usr/lib*/nsbrowser/plugins/*libflash*

is says no such file or directory.

Anyway I keep on searching for a solution.

[anomaly65]

B3rtm3n, which nvidia card? Any luck trying chrome browser? Any specific site (PG rated:-) ) that gives particular trouble?

Cheers,
andy

[B3rtm3n]

Hi Andy, Do not know if Youtube is PG rated (have 3 channels for fun), but both firefox as chrome have this issue.

BTW, it is an Asus GTX 260 I have...

thx anyway
Oeter

[anomaly65]

Oeter,

Thankyou for the good sense of humor

Three things I would try.

First is to try browser in "private/incognito" mode, second is to create another user, and third is to try youtube while running on the livedvd and see if you get the same results.

If all have same stability problem with flash, I don't think much will help.

Good luck!
andy

[B3rtm3n]

Andy

I removed Adobe flash completely and installed Gnash instead

- All colors are now as they should be

- Gnash is less stable and crashed once in Chrome (just like it did when doing EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1)

- Chrome give messages I am using an older version of flash (and refers to: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/a ... ted_plugin)
it also sometimes blocks the video and I just have to click the button enable this once
To avoid these message you can enable the gnashplayer if you go to chrome://plugins in your Chrome browser

- Firefox no issues so far when using Gnash

I'll keep it this way, at least the colors are as they should be and maybe in the future I will try Flash again when new version arrives

It is clearly an Adobe flash error

thanks for the help anyway

Peter