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List: gnash-dev
Subject: Re: [Gnash-dev] KDE-3.5.6 crash due to firefox and gnash
From: James Lockie <bjlockie () lockie ! ca>
Date: 2007-01-29 5:24:34
Message-ID: 45BD8512.2070106 () lockie ! ca
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Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:27:28AM +0000, Martin Guy wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Isn't it weird that a plugin could crash firefox and KDE/X?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am 99% sure this is a bug in the OpenGL driver for your card. I would
>>>>>> suggest using the AGG renderer backend instead.
>>>>>>
>> I'd love to blame the closed-source drivers, and they probably do
>> cause some of the crashes as well as being it out of our control to
>> fix them. But just being able to point the blame elsewhere doesn't
>> change the reality that using Gnash makes firefox and the X server
>> die, whereas the Adobe one doesn't.
>>
>
> Still it isn't gnash fault. Gnash shouldn't have the possibility to
> crash X whatever garbage it sends to it. It is possible that it is
> a bug un gnash that reveals the X/Mesa/kernle/whatever bug, but still
> the X crash isn't strictly a gnash bug.
>
> --
> Pat
I agree it is gnash revealing a bug elsewhere but how can it be debugged?
I am pretty sure I had it installed wrong so it was using mesa for
OpenGL and the nvidia driver.
Now I am using the agg renderer and nothing has crashed so far.
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