Fixing / Resolving Fullscreen Adobe Flash issues
in Debian Linux
If you're experiencing problems with maximising flash (let's say
youtube) videos on your Debian or Ubuntu or any other debian
derivative.
You're not the only one! I myself has often experienced the same
annoying issue.
The
flash fullscreen failures or slownesses are caused by flash
player's attempts to use directly your machine hardware, as
Linux kernel is rather different than Windows and the guys from
Macromedia are creating always a way more buggy port of flash for
unix than it's windows versions, it's quite normal that the
flash player is unable to properly address the computer hardware
on Linux.
As i'm not programmer and I couldn't exactly explain the cause for
the fullscreen flash player mishaps, I'll skip this and right give
you the two command lines solution:
debian:~# mkdir /etc/adobe
debian:~# sudo echo \"OverrideGPUValidation = 1\" >>
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg
This should fix it for, you now just restart your Icedove
(Firefox), Epiphany Opera or whatever browser you're used to and
launch some random video in youtube to test the solution, hopefully
it should be okay
But you know you never know with flash let's just hope
that very soon the open flash alternative
gnash will be
production ready and at last we the free software users will be
freed from the evil "slavery" of adobe's non-free flash
player!