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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Using the newest flash player (standalone and Firefox plugin) (10.0.32.18) with a GPU enabled SWF file on Karmic beta with the Intel 2.9.0-b1 driver crashes flashplayer (segmentation fault, core dumped).
This wasn't a problem in Intrepid and Jaunty.

Steps to test this:
1) Download standalone player from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
2) Extract the standalone/release player from the archive and put it somewhere useful (like /usr/bin)
3) Create a file named: /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and put this line in it: "OverrideGPUValidation=true"
4) Download a GPU enabled SWF file (for example: http://oversoft.no-ip.org/gpuswftest/ (be sure to download the FLV file as well))
5) Start the player from the terminal: flashplayer flvplayer.swf

It is supposed to go fullscreen and then display a really anoying FLV
file (flashes colors, i used it to test vsync).

The player will try to go to fullscreen for a couple of seconds and crash.
Try it again after that and it will insta-crash.
Use a SWF which uses direct-rendering or software-rendering doesn't crash the player (but also, no acceleration obviously).

I don't know if it's related to UXA or to KMS (seems highly impropable) or just to a new bug in the Intel driver.
(Step 3 is needed to set the flash player to hardware acceleration, as the player has a weird way of discovering GPU acceleration capabilities and won't enable acceleration on Intel cards)

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[945gm] Adobe flashplayer crashes on GPU enabled SWF files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451146
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