Rob wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2009 04:50:26 pm Justin Smith wrote: >> The reason I would be tempted to do this, is because the linux >> versions of flash and firefox are huge cumbersome cpu-hogs, and I hear >> the windows versions of both programs, running under wine, run much >> more smoothly. > > I have had high CPU usage with Flash 10 since I switched to Jaunty (was > running Flash 9 before.) But I've also had high CPU usage with KDE4 apps, > so I suspect my Intel video drivers (or the version of Xorg in Jaunty) may > be to blame. There are bugs filed for both possibilities. This would mean > Flash 10 under Wine won't help, so I guess I need to try it and report > back. > > Playing a standard, low-res Youtube video pegs my CPU nowadays, so I can > understand why Ken might be frustrated enough to resort to drastic > measures. Hmmm, I have no such problem with Flash on Debian Lenny. Many times, I have a Flash music video playing in FF, switch it to the background, and continue doing other stuff with the computer without any performance impact at all. Must be a problem with Ubuntu. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
