Firefox 2 + Flash problems

[Ed Smits]

Sorry, we fixed it ourselves, did a search through the old mail on the
list, found a user in Nov. who had the same problem. Running "sudo
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" fixed the problem.

next time I'll check the archives before writing....

ED

On 1/9/07, Ed Smits <ed.smits at gmail.com> wrote:
> My son installed Edgy on his laptop, then installed the Flash Player 7
> per instructions into /usr/lib/firefox, everything looked good.
> However, when any flash starts up (eg the one on the www.adobe.com
> home page) it starts to load in then Firefox dies. If we remove the
> plugins from /usr/lib/firefox Firefox works fine, of course w/o Flash.
> We also tried installing the plugins to his user profile at ~.mozilla,
> same thing, Firefox dies if it hits a Flash page.
>
> about:plugins looks ok.
>
> When Firefox is started from a terminal session and dies the output is:
>
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
>
> The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>   (Details: serial 118 error_code 8 request_code 144 minor_code 3)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
>
> Any ideas what's wrong? I know it should work, on the other 3 Edgy's
> I've recently installed it worked like a charm..
>
> Thanks
>
> ED
>