I tried to fix Flash, now it is worse than it was

[SpideyLinux69]

I have been using Puppy for a couple of years. It is the only system on my children's computers. I use Windows for some apps that I don't care to switch from.

I have had an extra 500Mhz computer that I would run with Puppy 4.2 to see what I could get out of it for the past 1.5 years. This week, I picked up a Dell Dimension 2400 2.6 Ghz Celeron, 512 MB and moved the hard drive over from the 500Mhz machine to this one. All was well, then I noticed that youtube videos were kind of buggy. They would stutter every 5 seconds (even when well buffered) and small purple/red splotches would intermittently appear on the video. I tried to upgrade the Adobe Flash Player per the Adobe sight. 10.2.159. I replaced the old libflashplayer.so file in multiple locations that I located.

/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.15/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/root/.mozilla/plugins

Now, flash is disabled in seamonkey and Puppy in general. I tried clicking on a few flash games that I had saved on the hard drive with no success.

Here is a small clip from my hardware info report:
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz
Memory : 514MB (194MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.42

I have read about 20 threads looking for 'the hint' that I am missing.

Right now I am just trying to get flash going again. Performance issues are for later - although it may be that this Celeron just can't handle the youtube videos.

Thank you

[SpideyLinux69]

Moderators - please move.... I guess I should have put under users.

Embarrasing - I forgot to check the pet repository. Flash player 10 was there and Flash is working.

Red/Purple streaks showing up is solved, but the video still stutters every 5-10 seconds.

Thanks

[duke93535]

You know of course that your processor is pretty low end for flashplayer. My AMD XP 2400 is just a third faster and it barely runs fast enough to see flash off the internet smoothly. Factors like your internet speed and the site speed you’re connected to come in to play.

[Béèm]

You know of course that your processor is pretty low end for flashplayer. My AMD XP 2400 is just a third faster and it barely runs fast enough to see flash off the internet smoothly. Factors like your internet speed and the site speed you’re connected to come in to play.

I wouldn't say that a 2.6Ghz is a low end processor.

[duke93535]

Béèm:

It is by today’s standards, take a look “Low End CPU Chart

[Béèm]

[quote="duke93535"]Béèm:

It is by today’s standards, take a look “Low End CPU Chart

[rjbrewer]

[quote="duke93535"]Béèm:

It is by today’s standards, take a look “Low End CPU Chart

[duke93535]

Béèm:

I have used a Intel Pentium 4 1.60 GHz which is rated at 190, watching hulu, was it watchable, answer yes, was it smooth, answer - not really. My duron 1.2 GHz is barely watchable, and really not smooth at all.

The Athlon XP 2400, rated at 431 on the benchmarks, it is fairly smooth and very watchable, but you can tell it is nearing the end, with flashplayer requirements.

The OP’s Celeron processor is rated at 291, so figure it out. 2.60 GHz sounds pretty good, until you check the benchmark comparison.

Requirement for flash player 10 from their site:

Processor - Intel Pentium 4 2.33GHz, Athlon 64 2800+ or faster processor (or equivalent)
Memory - 512MB of RAM

The Athlon 64 2800+ is rated at 465 on benchmarks. Of course these are not set in stone, but guidelines or my XP 2400 wouldn’t work fairly well.

[SpideyLinux69]

Thanks for the comments. I picked up the machine for very little. I may upgrade to the 3.06 Pentium (about 20$ on ebay).

My girls have two puppy machines with 2+Ghz pentiums and they perform reasonably well with puppy 4.2 loaded.

I noted on the site about the flashplayer 10 requirements, but the off colors were just unacceptable.

Anyways, the colors are gone with flashplayer 10, the stuttering is there. The youtube downloader pet works better for me than greasemonkey. MP4 format works great.