Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:43:34 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox and Flash ... Message-ID: <20050919204334.GA78870@keyslapper.net> In-Reply-To: <432F182A.1060304@gish.demon.nl> References: <432F182A.1060304@gish.demon.nl>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/19/05 09:57 PM, Kiffin Gish sat at the `puter and typed: > I know I am not the first nor more than likely the last, but I cannot=20 > for the life of me get Flash to work in Firefox 1.0.6 on FreeBSD 5.4. >=20 > I've tried everything according to the FreeBSD handbook, mailing lists,= =20 > etc, but still when there is a page with Flash, poor Firefox chokes and= =20 > dies. >=20 > One thing interesting I noticed though, which might be a hint, is that=20 > if I exit Xfce, logout, login this time as root, fire up Xfce again and= =20 > then run Firefox, everything works without a hitch, e.g. even=20 > flash-based pages don't crash Firefox. Weird. >=20 > What gives? I assume you have the plugger port installed? Better yet, install the plugger-plugins-hubbe port. It's a meta-port that gets not only the plugger port, but all those needed for the various media types, like xanim and mplayer. The plugin management isn't exactly solid as a rock yet. Here's a few places to look: ls -lCF ~/.plugger: -r-xr-xr-x 1 leblanc leblanc 13516 Sep 16 15:50 plugger-5.1.3* -r-xr-xr-x 1 leblanc leblanc 9068 Sep 16 15:50 plugger-controller* -r-xr-xr-x 1 leblanc leblanc 2905 Sep 16 15:50 plugger-oohelper* -r--r--r-- 1 leblanc leblanc 18310 Sep 16 19:08 pluggerrc-5.1.3 If you have anything different, make sure your /usr/ports/www/plugger/ port is up to date, clean out ~/.plugger, and as your userid - with the port built - type 'make local-install'. This will repopulate ~/.plugger. Then there's this: ls -lCF /usr/X11/lib/browser-plugins/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 62 Sep 19 08:34 libjavaplugin_oji.so@ -> /usr= /local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23952 Sep 16 15:48 npplugger.so* I know it seems a little sparse, but it does the trick for me. nplugger.so is the plugger interface, and libjavaplugin_oji.so is, of course, the java plugin. You'll want the JDK 1.4.2 port installed before worrying about this one. One big hangup I ran into at this point, was not having mplayer configured right. Check out `man mplayer` to check out the proper configuration - pay particular attention to the -vo switch. Use the /usr/local/share/mplayer/example.conf file, and modify the various flags that appear troublesome. You can figure this out by getting a .wmv or =2Empeg URL and passing it to mplayer from the command line. If it helps, this is my vo setting: vo =3D sdl,x11,xv,gl,gl2 I should probably put gl2 at the beginning though . . . HTH Lou --=20 Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD-at-keyslapper-DOT-net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) Please send off-list email to: leblanc at keyslapper d.t net Key fingerprint =3D C5E7 4762 F071 CE3B ED51 4FB8 AF85 A2FE 80C8 D9A2 Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse. --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDLyL2r4Wi/oDI2aIRAiXEAJ9v+oJX5wy7YebV3S1UsDA2XIkfAACfWkY0 OtsCAfDy3u+XzggKXBwjU4U= =eMpY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
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