I think this might be a video driver problem

English Hardware
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But I am not sure.
openSUSE 12.3
KDE 4.10.5r1

Toshiba Satellite Pro
Amd Athlon X2
ATI RS 780MC
Radeon HD 3100

and I don’t know where to find the driver info except I saw this under Kinfo I think
Open GL
Driver Vendor X.Org
Open GL/ES Version 3.0 Mesa 9.0.2
Vendor ID 69634

Firefox 23.0

what the problem is sometimes, when watching some videos and I tell it to go full screen, it does and the video stops, then about 5 seconds later the sound stops.
Pressing the pause, then play, etc does nothing. The only way to get it started again is to refresh the page.

I figured that I would try and find a video driver but stopped when I read the pinned topic about Toshiba driver update above.
Is that link still valid ?
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/476554-dont-update-ati-proprietary-driver-radeon-hd-4000-radeon-hd-3000-radeon-hd-2000-a.html

thanks

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What kind of videos? Locally stored or webbased. In case of the latter, is Flash being used? If so, disable it’s hardware accelleration (right click, Flash settings).

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Well I tried but there were no settings dealing with hardware acceleration.
And the video is from a web site.
I am thinking that it might be flash player involved because this happened.
I started the video and a pop up happened promoting some video games. When I tried the rt-click I got a small adobe pop up about permitting it to use the camera and mic.
At that point the video froze even though it was not full screen.

Maybe there are some other adobe settings I can fiddle with and I will try them tomorrow.

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It is true that there has been no proprietary AMD driver built yet for your hardware that functions with openSUSE-12.3. A number of us are hoping that situation will change in the future.

wrt obtaining information on the video driver, a good command to use is:


/sbin/lspci --nnk | grep VGA -A2

which will let us know the hardware, and sometimes will include the driver.

When X window loads, it logs a lot of useful information in the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log file (and archives the older version of the file to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old) and dependant on the problem either of those two files can have very useful information for debugging a problem. Typically users on our forum will copy the content of the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and post it to SUSE Paste, press create and then post here the URL where that file is located. It will often provide information on the user’s graphic card setup.

The program ‘inxi’ with a packaged version available on the Packman repository also gives a nice succinct summary of one’s graphics. For example for my nvidia card with that application installed, the command “inxi -F” yields for the graphical information:


Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] 
           X.Org: 1.13.2 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa,nouveau) Resolution: 1920x1200@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 260/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 319.49
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I checked a box in:
Configure Desktop
\Desktop Effects
\Advanced
Suspend desktop effects for full screen windows

And that seemed to fix it.

However, I was able to find the checkbox for using the hardware accelerator and it was unchecked. It’s possible that the Configure Desktop change, changed it.

The accelerator option was where you said it would be, though it was hard to find at the time the video stopped. The video being in Korean and the wording on the popup screens being Chinese. There were, I think 4 or 5 tabs on the settings popup but they were impossible to read.
If I was able to get to the settings before pressing the “play”, they were in English.

thanks again