From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 02:10:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF3916A420 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:10:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD70413C480 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:10:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IihJK-0003SB-Rh for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:10:02 +0000 Received: from c-71-193-243-110.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([71.193.243.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:10:02 +0000 Received: from zephiris by c-71-193-243-110.hsd1.or.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:10:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: Zephiris Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.devel.emulation Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:02:47 -0700 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <20071008125558.GE1509@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> <790a9fff0710080752k90c1ac3r23856304f176648e@mail.gmail.com> <18186.18515.36297.742895@whale.home-net> <200710101940.l9AJetsx013837@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20071018195144.GA12546@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20071018203148.GA11544@freebsd.org> <11167f520710181513n71e1d317r543ffaad94c19543@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-193-243-110.hsd1.or.comcast.net User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:10:12 -0000 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > I too am confused, if you have flash 9 working in firefox on RELENG_7 > please give us a detailed how to there are just a TON of people > looking for this. I have 5 systems I would test it out on right now, 2 > of them are teenager computers so they would get a workout on youtube > , among other sites that require flash 8 :) > > Sam Fourman Jr. I saw this floating around before, and tried it. It "works" with Flash9 on RELENG_7, but lots of things will still crash it. Back on the freebsd-multimedia mailing from Feb, Michael Nottebrock (I don't want to take credit or anything) noticed libflashsupport.so helped to some degree. I have to run Gentoo on /compat/linux (am I the only one for which Nvidia linux drivers won't do anything with FC4 X11 libraries?), but it's the same with the binary libflashsupport.so posted ([1], it goes into /compat/linux/usr/lib), and compiled according to instructions from the Adobe Beta site[2]. It's good enough to play many flash videos, it doesn't look like many games will work, or that things that use 'streaming video' will work, either. I'm not quite sure why it's crashing. Since the source code is available for this[3], perhaps someone better versed with internal details of FreeBSD and in particular the Linux compatibility mode can take an examination of this sort of thing so we might have a chance at a flash9 that will, say, actually work with YouTube (although gnash does a fine job on that for now). [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~lofi/libflashsupport.so [2] http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:Additional_Interface_Support_for_Linux [3] http://www.kaourantin.net/flashplayer/flashsupport.c