9.10 Karmic Koala & Flash Troubles

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Hi,
I upgraded to Karmic 9.10 from Jaunty 9.04. After the upgrade, I am now experiencing trouble with Flash on the web. I use Opera mostly, but I've seen that the issue extends into Firefox too. Specifically, I can load a lot of Flash content, such as Youtube videos or Pandora, but once loaded I can't use the controls.

I've tried searching through the forums, and I've done a few things to try to fix this: I've uninstalled the flashplugin, installed gnash, uninstalled gnash, installed the Adobe alpha release of Flash for 64-bit systems... Nothing seems to bring it back to the nice, clean way it was working in 9.04.

I'm running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu on my dual-core setup. Any suggestions? I'm starting to get bummed. This may seem like a small deal, but I am on the web constantly and Flash seems like it's everywhere on the web these days. I'm considering rolling back to 9.04...

Thank you!

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There's a sticky about Flash and 64 bit in the AMD 64 bit part of the forum.
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=343
I haven't read it through yet, but I have the flash problems too. My approach is to boycott those web-sites ;)

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Thanks for your reply! I had a look at that thread and it looks like a lot of folks are having these troubles. There also seems to be a link between nVidia cards and the flash issue. I found a link to another thread that may have a workaround:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8215570#post8215570

I'll try it when I get home to my Ubuntu box at home this evening.

Anyone else have suggestions? Thanks all. The more ideas the better, of course.

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Update: The solution found through the other thread helped me to solve this problem. Apparently I was having the issue becuase of an issue with nVidia/Flash/Karmic. Disabled GPU detection and the problem has resolved. Post that led the way:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8215570&postcount=147

Thanks all! The Ubuntu community pays off yet again. ):P