Hi guys,
i have a little problem. I have suse 11.2 on my computer.
When im watching online videos on youtube and change to fullscreen.
The video seems slowed and flickers.
Is this a problem of my flash player? I did all the updates in yast and I have the adobe flash player plugin 10.1.53.64.
thanks for your time
What video card and what driver?
Hi,
Are you using a 64 bit system? I know FireFox 64 bit can have trouble with flash.
I have a ATI radeon 4800.
Yes i have 64bit system
I have the same problem on my system with both Firefox and Chromium. I have an nvidia GTS 250 with 1 GB ram. Videos play fine in a smaller window, it’s only when I choose 780p and go full screen that I have a problem.
I’m wondering if using KDE 4.5 has anything to do with it.
Yes but what driver? Are you using the default OS driver or the propritary ATI driver?
Same question are you useing the default or propriatary driver?
I’m using nvidia’s driver 256.44.
I see that the op is using 11.2 but I’m using 11.3. I tested a 720p full screen video using KDE 4.4.5 and it played fine. So for me, the problem is with KDE 4.5.
I just installed suse 11.2 on my computer and I still have the driver suse installed for me. Im gonna try the ati driver.
Maybe it works then
Hi,
I seem to be experiencing the same problem. Flash video works OK (occasional flickering) when full screen is selected the audio continues, but the video goes black. The above suggestions are great, but they don’t exactly tell you what to do about it or which driver is right. In case anyone has the same trouble, I found from Linuxquestions.org that if you go to /etc/x11 then look at the file xorg.conf it will show which drivers are installed. There I found this entry:
Section “Device”
BoardName “Mobile Intel GM45 Express Chipset”
Driver “intel”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Option “monitor-LVDS” “Monitor[0]”
VendorName “Intel”
EndSection
So it looks as though I have the Intel driver and not a generic one. Would switching to a generic driver fix this? Please keep the instructions simple as I am admittedly new at this. I don't mind doing some homework, but there are limitations.
Thanks in advance for any help
Backup your file and change “intel” to “intellegacy”, reboot the X server and check if it works. If not revert to your previously backed up file. To restart X server pres alt+ctrl+backspace key combination twice.
Best regards,
Greg
Awesome!
That totally did the job. I’m still wrapping my mind around making such a change with a simple edit to a text file. I think the graphics actually look better too. Thank you Greg, you really helped me out. (Added to your rep FWIW 
)
I appreciate it,
Amos
Happy to help. You should thank consused as he’s my guru on the topic 
Firefox 3.6 Flash full screen
Hopefully the intel guys will fix the driver in the foreseeable future.
Best regards,
Greg
cottenedge,
Noting that this:
works according to this:
I thought that you might be curious as to what that simple edit does ?
Typically in openSUSE, the Intel graphic driver is packaged in the rpm “xorg-x11-driver-video”. The version of that driver is the 2.12.0 version in openSUSE-11.3 (where the most current Intel driver is version 2.13 - but that 2.13 version is not part of openSUSE-11.3). The newer Intel drivers (2.12 / 2.13) do not always work well on all hardware, and in many cases an older driver (the 2.9.1 version) works better.
The “intellegacy” driver is packaged in the rpm xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy-2.9.1-5.1, and in fact it is the 2.9.1 version of the Intel driver (with some patches).
By specifying “intellegacy” you instructed X to use the older (patched) Intel 2.9.1 driver version that is packaged with the xorg-x11-video-intel-legacy rpm.
I tried to record some of this ‘theory’ in this thread: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users