On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:15:18AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 02/16/2012 08:25 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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@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.
<snip> > 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.
I echo this recommendation.
I used to use the NVIDIA drivers directly from the nvidia.com, but since I upgraded my workstation to CentOS-6.x I have been using elrepo's rpms for nvidia with no issues.
I certainly know how to build things (being that I build most of the c4 and c5 updates that we release), but I love the convenience that elrepo provides. I highly recommend the elrepo site for anything that they currently maintain, they do a great job.
without having yet switched to a repo instead of using the package from nvidia's web site, I just reinstalled the previous version of the nvidia drivers and now flash works. go figure.
the one that was NOT working for me was 290.10, and the next newest one I had (the one I am now using again) is 285.05.09.
of course, that doesn't say it's an nvidia bug, it may well be a flash problem. time will tell, perhaps.
thanks for the advise to all of you!
Fred