retitle 697339 flashplugin-nonfree: please download and install older player depending on /proc/cpuinfo severity 697339 wishlist tags 697339 wontfix stop
Hi Martijn, On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:17:04AM +0100, Martijn Brouwer wrote: > The flashplugin-nonfree package installs the newest version (currently 11.2) > of the the flashplayer, which does not work on AMD K7 cpu's or other cpu's > that > do not support sse2. As a results, the player crashes with SIGILL. > In iceweasel and firefox this does just not work. Epiphany and midori crash, > only opera does show the cause of the crash. I regret that flashplugin-nonfree does not work well for you. > The 11.1 version of the flash player does not use sse2 and works correctly. > Therefore I suggest that the flashplugin-nonfree package checks whether the > cpu supports sse2 (in /proc/cpuinfo), and the desides to install the latest > version or the older 11.1. Creative idea, but that would install an Adobe Flash Player with security bugs. Please report the SIGILL problem to Adobe, so that Adobe can maintain their newest Adobe Flash Player in a way that works on AMD K7 cpu's. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
