Re: [dev] [wmii] Flash in fullscreen regularly freezes screen

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:35:35 -0400
>Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 03:24:36PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
>> >On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 14:39:23 +0200
>> >Eckehard Berns <ecki-suckless_AT_ecki.to> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I also have encountered freezes with fullscreen flash video playback (I
>> >> haven't tested something other than youtube). I noticed that I didn't
>> >> encounter those freezes when using compositing. Thus I simply added a
>> >> "xcompmgr &" to my .xinitrc. I don't know if it helps with other setups.
>> >> I thought this problem was kinda unique to my setup.
>> >
>> >Thanks for the tip! I just tried it and it's a fine now, on my machine
>> >with the 945GME. (My other machine doesn't have Linux installed as of
>> >last night.)
>> >
>> >Aint progress wonderful, eh? You'll always need more, just to stay in
>> >the same place. No wonder nature has forest fires and other disasters.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I've never had compositing enabled and
>> still no problem.
>>
>> %uname -a
>> Linux kris 2.6.38-bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 14 22:31:00 EDT 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>
>What graphics chipset?

00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C67 [GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Commercial drivers version 270.41.19-1

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