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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  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)
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+ [lspci]
+ 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
+     	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0]
+ 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
+     	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2]

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[i945gm] Adobe flashplayer crashes on GPU enabled SWF files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451146
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