Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

John Hupp ubuntu at prpcompany.com
Mon Aug 12 19:32:21 UTC 2013


I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with integrated Intel graphics, running 
Raring, in which Adobe Flash Player 11.2 displays only with shades of 
purple and green in a horizontally compressed window.

There was this helpful bug report on file at 
http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1178982.

Work-arounds were to change the Xorg acceleration method to UXA, or boot 
with an older kernel.  But UXA acceleration produces other side-effects 
on this machine, and I haven't figured out how to install an older kernel.

And the bug was closed because the original poster didn't have 
possession of the machine anymore.

In my own testing, if I have recorded my observations correctly, we 
have, on the Intel graphics/driver with default acceleration:
- Flash 11.2 working under Quantal with the 3.5 kernel
- Flash 11.2 failing under Raring with the 3.8 kernel
- Flash 11.2 failing under Saucy
- Flash 11.8 working (in Chrome) on Raring with the 3.8 kernel
This doesn't give me any firm conclusions.

I also tried one possible fix for the default Intel SNA acceleration.   
I created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with contents:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
    Option      "TearFree"    "true"
EndSection

But this did not help.

I have not been able to find an active refile of the bug.  Does anyone 
know anything more about this problem?

--John





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