[SOLVED] Flash Freezes in Fullscreen -- ESC doesn't work

[Dennola4]

Tonight I tried to watch a fullscreen flash slide presentation hosted by animoto.com and while the sound played the screen itself was completely frozen. I had to forcibly restart the computer (using the laptop power button) which upset me. NOTHING freezes my linux machine. It was like a Windows flashback.

Anyway, I found this and it worked. I'm copying and pasting so it is in our archives:

There are two parts to this fix. Maybe only the first one will be necessary for you, but if you have an Nvidia or ATI graphics card, then you might have to do the second part as well.

Firstly, open a terminal window and type:

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sudo mkdir /etc/adobe

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sudo geany /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

In the editor, type:

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OverrideGPUValidation=true

Close and save the file. Restart your browser and try running any full-screen Flash movie from YouTube, for example. If this works, then all well and good. If not, then try the following:

Edit the launcher for your chosen web browser, and insert the following before the launcher command:

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env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

I use Google Chrome (yes…I know!!), so the launcher command was:

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/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --enable-plugins %U

Which becomes:

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env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --enable-plugins %U

Again, restart your browser using this launcher, and see if full-screen Flash video works now.

I’m going to avoid the Steve Jobs-like rant with regard to Flash and why it seems to be terminally unstable and insecure, but hopefully this will be one step closer to getting an improved Flash experience on your Ubuntu installation.

Thanks to Matt Rudge for the post this was pasted from, found at: http://blog.mattrudge.net/2011/04/21/fu ... ment-12280

Hope this helps fellow SalixOS users.