Help! My flashplayer is lying in pieces strewn across my screen!

[rilesywilesy]

I have consulted the forums alot, so far haven't found anything that worked for me.

First, the flash:

When i first installed, I had to get the latest adobe flash. So I got the latest version and did everything the forums said to do, and I had to cd the adobe .so file into my mozilla plugins folder through root because it wouldn't allow me to do it uner my normal user. Anyway, now flash works...in a manner of speaking. When I say in a manner of speaking, what I mean is not really; something is happening, but it's not what is supposed to be happening. Rather than, for instance, a youtube video being sort of in it's place in the little box, it is spread out across the screen in little cigar-shaped squares, as if it has been cut up into pieces and spread evenly horizontally across the screen. And then, when I close it, they stay there on my desktop background, until, oddly enough, I make my curser drag a square across them, which has a sort of erasing effect. I didn't see anything remotely like this in the forums, so uhhhh...any help? Like I said I did basically all the troubleshooting stuff for the flashplayer that I could find just from surfing the forums from google searches. This happened as soon as I downloaded the adobe flash player, before which it simply wouldn't play them.

Also, my sound doesn't work. I just switched to fedora from ubuntu, and with ubuntu I had this same problem, except the thing that solved the problem then (fiddling around with the switches in pulseaudio) is not fixing my problem here. I've done all the usual things, like make sure nothing is muted, messed with the switches, restarted, etc etc. It says that my sound is working, on the screen in the volume control everything APPEARS to be running smoothly, but there is simply no sound issuing from the speakers (or the headphones).

Alright you brilliant fedora geniuses out there, help this dumb point-and-click windows user figure this crap out.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Execute this in Terminal :

su -
lspci | grep -i vga
exit

Post output here.

[rilesywilesy]

[riley@Shpongle ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@Shpongle ~]# lspci grep -i vga
Usage: lspci [<switches>]

Basic display modes:
-mm Produce machine-readable output (single -m for an obsolete format)
-t Show bus tree

Display options:
-v Be verbose (-vv for very verbose)
-k Show kernel drivers handling each device
-x Show hex-dump of the standard part of the config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-b Bus-centric view (addresses and IRQ's as seen by the bus)
-D Always show domain numbers

Resolving of device ID's to names:
-n Show numeric ID's
-nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-q Query the PCI ID database for unknown ID's via DNS
-qq As above, but re-query locally cached entries
-Q Query the PCI ID database for all ID's via DNS

Selection of devices:
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>] Show only devices with specified ID's

Other options:
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of vga
-p <file> Look up kernel modules in a given file instead of default modules.pcimap
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)

PCI access options:
-A <method> Use the specified PCI access method (see `-A help' for a list)
-O <par>=<val> Set PCI access parameter (see `-O help' for a list)
-G Enable PCI access debugging
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
[root@Shpongle ~]# exit
logout
[riley@Shpongle ~]$


Also I forgot to mention, it's not only youtube videos but anytime there's a flash anything on a page.

[devils casper]

Its a pipe sign ( | ) instead of -i in lspci command.

[rilesywilesy]

Sorry

[riley@Shpongle ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@Shpongle ~]# lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
[root@Shpongle ~]# exit
logout
[riley@Shpongle ~]$