Flash freezes 64bit 10.04

Rick Berger rberger at rogers.com
Mon Jul 12 07:23:14 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 20:43 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/11/2010 05:32 PM, Rick Berger wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 15:20 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> >> On 07/11/2010 02:53 PM, Rick Berger wrote:
> >> > I just upgraded my Gateway SX2800-01c quad Q8300 with nVidia GeForce GT
> >> > 220 graphics from 64 bit 9.10 to 10.04. And the proverbial problems of
> >> > Flash have popped up as usual. After watching 2 to 5 minutes of video in
> >> > either Firefox or Chrome the video freezes, audio continues for about 10
> >> > -15 seconds and the whole system locks up. Can't even do a Ctrl-Alt-F1
> >> > to get a command login prompt. 
> >> > 
> >> > Flash seemed to be stable in 9.10 AMD64, is there a way to roll back to
> >> > that in 10.04? Or has someone written up a work around?  
> >> 
> >> Which flash version do you have installed? Which version of Firefox?
> >> Also, do you have a url for the flash that is giving you problems?
> >> Sometimes it's just bad network connections.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > Adobe Flash Player plugin installer version 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3
> > and Firefox 3.6.6. I've had to uninstall the plugin because it freezes
> > up my whole system to the point where I have to turn the power off and
> > on. It really doesn't matter what url I use.  
> > 
> > 
> 
> Maybe you want to join in on this bug?
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/603882
> 
> Have you tried a test profile?
> 
> 
> 
Ok, I think I got things working longer now. I removed the NVIDIA
accelerated graphics driver. Flash works and the whole system boots and
comes up a lot faster. Although the system just hung after watching and
listening to two hours of live.tiwt.tv.  









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