From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 08:21:50 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 1292216A420; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:21:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (vlk.vlakno.cz [62.168.28.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54E213C461; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:21:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DE16692C7; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:21:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vlk.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SYWiamkaf1Wx; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:21:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCADD6692AA; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:21:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l9J8Lfmx035808; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:21:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:21:41 +0200 From: Roman Divacky To: Zephiris Message-ID: <20071019082141.GA35670@freebsd.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, 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 08:21:50 -0000 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 > (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 ;)