No flash with nvidia restricted driver

Bug #206347 reported by Kẏra
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Basilio Kublik

Bug Description

I have found that on two of my computers which require the restricted nvidia driver for the nvidia NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] with a fresh install of ubuntu hardy, once the nvidia restricted drivers are installed, flash will not work. Firefox will say flash is not installed, even when it is, and then when going to install it, it says it is already installed. If the restricted drivers are disabled, flash will work again.

I'm sure this is enough for many people with the same problem to keep from switching over to Ubuntu. Without flash a lot of things like YouTube and such will not work and is people run into this issue they're probably not going to use Ubuntu anymore.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4571756

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Basilio Kublik (sourcercito) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" [WWW] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.

We have instructions on debugging some types of problems. [WWW] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures

At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote :

Okay, it's all there now

description: updated
Kẏra (thekyriarchy)
description: updated
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Caleb (caleb-marcus) wrote :

Why is the priority of this bug low? Flash is pretty important, and lots of people have nVidia graphics cards.

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

Danny Piccirillo : Can you re-install flash and tell if it fixed your issue? There has been recent problems with flash installation which ubufox and Firefox did not show and I suspect that this is the real cause of your bug. The actual flashplugin-nonfree should work correctly :

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote :

It seems to be working now but over the past few days i've noticed that some flash things will work, some will partially work. At one point flash videos started playing without sound and stopped after one or two seconds. Later, flash started crashing firefox after watching two or more videos during the same browser session. Should all those issues be fixed now?

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

The flash which does not play flash videos more than 2 seconds is bug 201770 and most of people reported this bug which disappeared. When I was able to reproduce this bug, it seemed to be a problem with gtk engines (murrine in my case) which was not configured properly. Since you can't reproduce the initial issue described in your bug report, I set the bug status to invalid. Most probably that the real problem was the recent md5sums mismatch problem with flashplugin-nonfree package which cause flashplugin-nonfree to looks like it was installed while it was not (because of a recent update of flashplugin-nonfree), this bug is fixed in Hardy. Thanks for your bug report and feel free to report any other bugs you might find.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree:
status: New → Invalid
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