Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:21:41 +0200 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: Zephiris <zephiris@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9 Message-ID: <20071019082141.GA35670@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <ff938c$3mh$1@ger.gmane.org> 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> <ff938c$3mh$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:02:47PM -0700, Zephiris wrote: > 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 <lofi@freebsd.org> > (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). this is a nice information.... by a chance can you try to recompile the flashsupport.c with gcc 4.0.3 as they suggest in the source code? you never know with gcc ;)
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