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Adobe Flash Player problems with fullscreen mode in Firefox and Ubuntu 9.04

July 2, 2009 at 14:28 · Filed under Ubuntu

Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 (a.k.a. Jaunty Jackalope) I found some problems when watching videos via Flash media player 10 in fullscreen mode.

After doing a small research the *only* solution that really solved the issue is explained in this thread

What you have to do is easy:

  1. sudo mkdir /etc/adobe
  2. sudo nano /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
  3. Paste “OverrideGPUValidation=true” (without quotation marks)
  4. Restart Firefox.

I hope this solves the problem.

I am looking forward to the next Adobe Flash Player release :-)

8 Comments »

  Sami wrote @ July 2, 2009 at 15:13

thanks for sharing, but if you think from the average computer user point of view, this is probably the reason of why Linux is still not taking off as a personal computer operative system. Ask any average user what “sudo” is and you’ll see ;-)

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  Carlos Le Mare wrote @ July 2, 2009 at 15:53

The only problem that I have is when I use 2 monitors… (I have a notebook). When I switch the video to full screen this shows the content in the second monitor in full screen mode but with the same size… the rest of the screen in black. This happend to me with or without your trick.

Do you know a method to avoid this?

Thanks.

clemare

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  xavimila wrote @ July 2, 2009 at 18:50

Actually I did not have this problem with flash but a trick could be to use (if you have compiz enabled) the windows key to zoom in/out into your desktop while pressing the mouse wheel…

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  Wil wrote @ July 14, 2009 at 18:12

Thanks dude. You made my day! First I had problem with installing flash 10, then had problem deleting the old flash 9, then problem with the full screen…….I was about to try another distro. Finally I got everything resolved!

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  steven wrote @ July 16, 2009 at 02:21

Thanks for solution, but I have a question on # 3 do I write on the terminal ” paste Override …” or do I paste “OverrideGPUValidation=true” only this line If that is the case, where do I paste it. thank you very much.

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  xavimila wrote @ July 16, 2009 at 09:26

Hi Steven,
the solution is to paste “OverrideGPUValidation=true” in the file /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

Cheers

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  steven wrote @ July 17, 2009 at 05:58

Thanks for your reply, I was able to paste it, but neither can I save it nor can exit, it says that closing the window will kill the process. thanks in advance.

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  Marc wrote @ July 20, 2009 at 14:26

I tried this, still problems.

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