Flash trouble on F10 / VESA

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 18:44:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 07:57:25PM +0200, Mikko Huhtala wrote:
> 
> I've an up-to-date F10 installation on an old laptop with a very poor
> graphics card. lspci says
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]
> 
> Xorg uses the Savage driver with DRI. I've configured X to run at 16
> bit color depth, otherwise a lot of things, especially playing video,
> become painfully slow.
> 
> For some reason Flash refuses to work at all. I've tried both Adobe's
> flash-plugin package and gnash (all 32 bit). Flash elements appear as
> blank boxes on web pages in Firefox and X uses 100% of CPU trying to
> do something, but the Flash animation/video never appears. Both
> flash-plugin and gnash do work on another machine that has Nvidia
> drivers and the same versions of all the other relevant packages. Is
> this a know problem?
> 
> Packages:
> kernel-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-5.fc10.i386
> xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.2.0-2.fc9.i386
> firefox-3.0.4-1.fc10.i386
> flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386

Have you tried the instructions on this wiki page?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash 

I would suggest that if that page doesn't solve your problems, you
should try posting to our specific user assistance list for best
results:

http://redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list 

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