Date: 30 Dec 2002 11:16:18 +0000 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: John Merryweather Cooper <coop9211@uidaho.edu> Cc: des@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installed plugger for opera now Gnome sound events gone Message-ID: <1041246977.46092.16.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3E0FF11E.6070307@uidaho.edu> References: <1041219789.81435.10.camel@localhost> <3E0FF11E.6070307@uidaho.edu>
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Hi John, On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 07:09, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > I've added freebsd-ports as a CC since this discussion is of general > interest. > > Stacey Roberts wrote: > > >Hello, > > I installed plugger-4.0_1 tonight from ports. I am using FreeBSD, > >uname: > ># uname -a > >FreeBSD <snip>.vickiandstacey.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Fri > >Nov 15 23:37:50 GMT 2002 > >root@<snip>.vickiandstacey.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/<snip> i386 > ># > > > >Window manager is Gnome-1.4 > >Opera Version: > >Version > >6.03 > >Build > >219 > >Platform > >Linux > >System > >i386, 2.4.2 > > > > > Well, first and formost, the Linux version of Opera (and any Linux > binary browser) is not going to be able to use a FreeBSD-native binary > plugin without some sort of wrapper, etc. You CAN use www/plugger with > the FreeBSD-native Opera that's recently been added to ports tree. :) > This is sort of a FAQ--ordinarily, the binaries of both port and plugin > MUST match. Sorry, I didn't know about this detail. > > >After testing at http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.html, all Gnome > >desktop sound volume is now barely audible, including all button-click > >sounds have gone in Evolution-1.2 completely. > > > > > First, www/plugger does not itself make ANY changes to the audio or > video sub-systems of X,, GNOME, KDE, or FreeBSD. By it's nature, > www/plugger is just a wrapper for various audio, graphics, multimedia, > text, and spreadsheet programs to displace web content. It does just > three things: 1) registers itself to the browser as a plugin; 2) > identifies the capabilities of the various audio, graphics, multimedia, > text, and spreadsheet programs to the browser; and 3) when the browser > desires to display or play given web content (usually triggered by MIME > info imbedded in the link or transmitted by the HTML server), plugger > dispatches this request to the appropriate program in such a manner that > the content is displayed as nearly as the author designed as practical > (there still much work to do here). So, any audio problem is likely > caused by one of the display-or-play programs playing around with the > sound sub-system. > > Second, since you are using a Linux-binary Opera, www/plugger was NOT > doing hte dispatching since it's most unlikely to work given the binary > mismatch. However, Opera WILL dispatch audio content to some players > and also has inherent ability to play some sound files (as well as play > it's own sound events). > > Probably, if you load a mixer application, you'll be able to reset the > audio sub-system. Dunno for sure, but I'll see what I can do. > > >Could either of you let me know how I might reverse this please? Is > >plugger supposed work? After installation, I could not locate plugger.so > >anywhere on my system, so I'm no idea as to the success of the > >installation. > > > > > Look at the pkg-plist for www/plugger. You'll see an entry for > npplugger.so. The name was changed intentionally to comply with the > Netscape Plugin Specification which calls for plugin names to begin with > "np". Earlier versions of Mozilla would not pick the plugin up. > Okay.., does that mean that you're suggest I rename the file to plugger.so and copy to the opera plugins dir? > >As such, repeated clicking of the "Find Plugins" button in Opera > >preferences don't change a thing. > > > > > A permanently frustrating activity given that you're using a Linux > version of Opera (and not even the latest one). If you want to use > plugger with a Linux browser, download the appropriate binary from the > Plugger Home Page and install plugger.so in a directory that Linux Opera > will see the plugin. Note that display-or-play applications can be any > mix of FreeBSD or Linux binaries so long as each individual application > would run O.K. on FreeBSD independently. :) At the moment, I'm only looking to restore the sound back to what it was. I'll kick plugger to the curb as soon as I can get things back to normal. > > >Hope to hear from one of you soon. > > > >Stacey > > > jmc > > > > > -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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