[CentOS] anyone else having flash trouble?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

fred smith wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:50:11AM +0000, Jake Shipton wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:14 -0500
>> fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>
>> > On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos
>> > have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I
>> > get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashed, reload
>> > page and try again.
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> Yes, I'm using the nvidia driver bundle from Nvidia's web site. but
> then I ALWAYS have been (this machine is something like 3 years old).
> However, I did update it recently, I'll have to see if I can figure
> out exactly when that was (less than a week...), and maybe reinstall
> the one I had previously.

Strong recommendation: enable elrepo, at least for kmod-nvidia and
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia. That way, when you update, it will autoupdate and
autorebuild for you. I've just started moving that was for my people (and
me) who have nvidia (esp old nvidia) cards.

       mark