Macromedia Flash Issues
 

Greetings,

This problem is driving me crazy. One day my flash plugin stopped working. Running debian sid and with firefox whenenver a flash movie is played the spot where it is to animate stays white. It does however play sound and if i right click the grey flash menu appears. I can see nothing though.

This happens in all browsers so it does not appear to be a firefox specific issue. I have installed flash and firefox all different ways, from source, from apt, flash from firefox, etc. I can not do anything to get this to work.

Has anyone seen this issue or have any clues on what to do?

It's Debian Sid here also, and flash works fine with firefox.

I haven't got much suggestions for you (since I haven't experienced problems with my flash). Type in firefox's address box "about:plugins" to see if firefox thinks it has flashplugin enabled. If flash is installed and firefox recognizes it but the problem still remains, double-check that you've got non-free mentioned in /etc/apt/sources.list and reinstall flash with "apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-nonfree". If it still refuses to work, then I don't know what else you could do. Hope this helps, though.

Yeah, like I said it is enabled because it does play sound and the flash menu is there if right clicked. Like I said I have also installed it from every possible way and combination :(

I dont know what to do except deal with no flash. It just stopped working one day.

I don't know much about this, i installed flash from the macromedia site, and followed their instructions, is working perfectly on Mozilla 1.7.3/Sid.

Actually,

I now have got a little info to pass along. It appears to work fine with a 2.4 kernel. It is broken in 2.6.8 that I run. Maybe a config issue in kernel, going to look into it.

i use flash plugin with 2.6.8 kernel without problem and normal install on both firefox and mozilla...latest versions...

Yes, I have also had it working at one time in 2.6 kernel. Know what I could have in kernel that is not letting me see the animation? Or what I should look at including?

what browser are you using......i believe in mozilla and firebird you can turn the animation off and on as a preference....:)

this may be in a plugin or extention.....

also have you done anything between the last time it work and first time it failed?

I have resolved this issue.

CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y needed to be set to y in kernel. For some reason I did not have it configured. doh!

Thanks for all your help guys!