Re: [Gnash-dev] KDE-3.5.6 crash due to firefox and gnash

[James Lockie]

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.