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Flash Player 7 Wrecks my Savage video drivers for Debian

Discussion in 'The Alternative OS' started by LesterofPups, Dec 20, 2005.

  1. LesterofPups Newcomer, in training Posts: 27

    Hello all, I've been trying to get this Compaq 5700t to run Debian, and it does it well until I install Flash Player 7. Then this happens:

    http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=75792437&size=o

    in gnome and KDE, in Mozilla, Firefox and Konqueror

    Any ideas? Would an older version of Flash work? --if I can find one, that is.

    I'm pretty sure it's a Savage 4 video card, and I'm using the generic savage driver that's a choice in the Debian install. Generic vga driver doesn't work. Vesa driver works well until you logout, at which point the screen is garbled, and hard reboot is necessary.

    I really appreciate any help you all can give me.
    LesterofPups, Dec 20, 2005
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