[Mageia-dev] Fwd: [VDPAU] [PATCH] Implement workarounds for Adobe Flash bugs

Sat Jul 28 13:32:15 CEST 2012

Am 26.07.2012 14:15, schrieb Glen Ogilvie:
+> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Glen Ogilvie at 24/07/12 11:06 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 03/05/12 17:00 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 03/05/12 15:37 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>>> I think we should probably apply the below libvdpau workaround for Adobe
+>>>>>> Flash issues, for both mga2 and mga1, WDYT?
+>>>>> Sounds like a good idea. I tend to trust Stephen's work generally, even
+>>>>> if I don't know much about the VDPAU issues specifically.
+>>>> Don't think these were ever pushed.
+>>>>
+>>>> I just tested this patch on a machine that is half built here. It worked
+>>>> OK provided you also include the only commit from git master since 0.4.1
+>>>> too.
+>>>>
+>>>> Seemed to work OK for me, but haven't managed to test too much yet.
+>>>>
+>>>> Col
+>>> Hi Colin,
+>>>
+>>> Do you happen to have an SRPM or RPM for mageia2 I could test?    I
+>>> have a system
+>>> that suffers from the problem this patch fixes.
+>> You can try the srpm from here:
+>>
+>> http://colin.guthr.ie/libvdpau-0.4.1-3.1.csg3.src.rpm
+>>
+>> There may very well be newer updates and releases now, I've not checked.
+>>
+>> All I did was add the only patch from git master:
+>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau/
+>>
+>> and then apply the other patch on top.
+>>
+>> They are both in the srpm.
+> I've tested the SRPM above it on my system and it resolves the blue
+> tint issue.   Thank you.  Hope someone can get this into Mageia
+> testing for others to test.
+>
+> Regards
+> Glen Ogilvie
+>
+Following up on this, this also solved the "blue tint" issue for me,
+and also that the flash overlay shows f.ex. in konsole windows and
+similar things.
+
+Shouldn't we put out an update for Mageia 2 at least for this issue?
+