Netflix Desktop

  1. Bug #1141781
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1141781

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Adam Rigg (adamrigg) wrote : Re: Using Netflix on on netflix-desktop results in a runaway process for Silverlight' s plugin-container

I'm pretty sure it's a bug in the kernel driver rather than the xorg driver. 3.2.0-39-generic definitely has the issue in a pretty severe way, but 3.5.0-26-generic (from generic-lts-quantal) is working much better. I'm seeing vast improvements with processor usage overall.

There are a few changes to the i915 driver listed in the kernel.org changelog for 3.2.40, so the pre-proposed Ubuntu kernel package is probably worth checking out also. The lts-quantal kernel still has a few issues, but Silverlight seems to recover on its own from choppy playback much of the time now. My workarounds also seem to be much more effective.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.40
https://launchpad.net/~kernel-ppa/+archive/pre-proposed?field.series_filter=precise

The crash issue listed above after upgrading the xorg driver was related to libGL.so.1 getting replaced by one of the dependencies. A package management bug made it kind of a pain to resolve, but I can use netflix-desktop again after working around a much more critical bug in Ubuntu itself (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1130419).