flash problems with Fedora 11 23-bit
Hugh Caley
hughc at aldon.com
Wed Jul 29 01:42:15 UTC 2009
On 07/28/2009 04:38 PM, Hugh Caley wrote:
> I have now also removed pulseaudio (just that RPM, plus a few others
> that yum wanted to remove because of dependencies) and, tentatively,
> it seems to have fixed the rest of my problems, such as ridiculous and
> continuous CPU abuse and the problem with videos not playing unless
> the mouse pointer was in motion above them.
>
> Also, with Pulse removed, sound is going through the SiS hardware
> again but it seems to work without problems now.
>
> It seems like alsa is taking care of audio mixing for me, and the
> various alsa mixers seem to work, although they aren't nicely
> integrated into the gnome desktop.
>
> The only problem left is that trying to fullscreen the videos crashes
> firefox. Compiz zoom seems to work fine though.
>
> Hugh
>
> On 07/28/2009 12:30 PM, Hugh Caley wrote:
>> So, solved about half my problems with Flash by adding an old CMedia
>> audio card
>>
>>> Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
>>
>> and not using the built-in SiS audio controller:
>>
>>> Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97
>>> Sound Controller (rev a0)
>>
>> Completely fixes my stuttering audio problem and now I can play
>> videos using the flash plugin, at least for a while.
>>
>> Now, usually, an embedded youtube video will play just after I
>> restart the browser. The main problem is that, after a while,
>> firefox will peg my cpu even if no video is playing, and sometimes
>> the videos will play only (and poorly) while I'm wiggling the mouse
>> on top of them.
>>
>> I am using the proprietary driver for my nvidia 6200 card.
>>
>> Any ideas of other things to try? I currently have "Desktop Effects"
>> (Compiz) turned on, but turning it off makes little difference. I'm
>> using Firefox 3.5, but 3.0 seems about the same in terms of Flash
>> problems.
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>
>
Agh, spoke too soon, having problems with cpu abuse and the mouse
pointer again. Still, better than it was; it really helps to have the
audio issues minimized by either getting audio hardware that is more
compatible with pulse or just getting rid of pulse.
And I mean 32-bit, of course ;)
Hugh
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