Moving a bug upstream per downstream request, emailing the maintainers

[Chris Wilson]

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

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre