#779262 xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Low performance and stuck system reproducing videos with Flash in Iceweasel using EXA Accel mode

Package:
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Source:
xserver-xorg-video-ati
Description:
X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
Submitter:
Jose Maldonado
Date:
2015-02-26 04:30:04 UTC
Severity:
important
#779262#5
Date:
2015-02-26 02:58:52 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Well, I have two little and strange problems with xserver-xorg-video-radeon, in
this case using EXA Accel mode and Iceweasel and flashplugin. Chromium and
pepperflashplugin without problem.

The first case is this:

1.- Open Iceweasel and go to watch any video using Flash player (YouTube,
Nowvideo, Vk, Crunchyroll)
2.- Reproduce any video in windows mode.

Results: Low performance reproducing video, the frame drops in video is
awesome. In HTML5 the videos go without issues.

The second case is this:

1.- Open Iceweasel and go to watch any video using Flash (YouTube, Nowvideo,
Vk, Crunchyroll)
2.- Reproduce the video in fullscreen mode.
3.- Wait a 5 minutes and Kabooom!

Results: System completely stuck. No response from mouse and in the keyboard
only SysRQ it's functional, nothing more.

Both case only appear in EXA Accel mode, in GLAMOR Accel mode, the videos go
smooth using Flash or HTML5.

My system is:

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
RAM: 2 GB RAM
VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD3650 (PCI-E)
SO: Debian Jessie with Gnome 3.14 up-to-date.

#779262#10
Date:
2015-02-26 03:36:59 UTC
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To:
Do you have the mesa-vdpau-drivers package installed and video decoding
acceleration enabled in flashplugin? If so, does disabling that avoid
the problems?

#779262#15
Date:
2015-02-26 04:25:44 UTC
From:
To:
El 25/02/15 a las 23:06, Michel Dänzer escribió:

Turn off the hardware acceleration of Flash not solve the issues in both
cases. This is the content of my /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

AVHardwareDisable = 0
FullScreenDisable = 0
LocalFileReadDisable = 1
FileDownloadDisable = 1
FileUploadDisable = 1
LocalStorageLimit = 5
ThirdPartyStorage = 1
AssetCacheSize = 50
AutoUpdateDisable = 1
LegacyDomainMatching = 0
LocalFileLegacyAction = 0
AllowUserLocalTrust = 0
# DisableSockets = 1
OverrideGPUValidation = 0
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0

And screenshot with this option off by default. I know that Flash 10.2
is very unstable with video acceleration, in the Debian Wiki talk of
this and recommend turn off this option.