Re: Moving a bug upstream per downstream request, emailing the maintainers

[John Hupp <jdhupp@prpcompany.com>]

On 8/16/2013 3:43 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 03:28:53PM -0400, John Hupp wrote:
>> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
>> Flash 11.2 content displays in shades of green and purple only, and
>> in a horizontally compressed space
>>
>> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
>> The full downstream bug report is at
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1212455 , but
>> my description from there:
>>
>> In my testing with the Intel driver using its default acceleration:
>> - Flash 11.2 works on Quantal with the 3.5 kernel
>> - Flash 11.2 works on Raring with the 3.5.0-17 kernel (though it
>> boots to a low-res desktop with a frozen pointer)
>> - Flash 11.2 works on Raring also with the 3.6.11-030611 or
>> 3.7.10-030710 mainline kernels
>> - Flash 11.8 works on Raring with the 3.8 kernel (in Chrome)
>> - Flash 11.2 fails on Raring with the 3.8 kernel
>> - Flash 11.2 fails on Raring with the latest mainline kernel,
>> 3.11.0-031100rc5
>> - Flash 11.2 fails on Saucy alpha 2 with its default kernel
> It's a flash bug. They ignore the format of the Window that they
> PutImage to. (Worse, they create an image of the right depth or else X
> would reject the PutImage with a BadMatch and then render incorrect
> pixel data into it.)
> -Chris
>

OK, thanks for identifying the problem.