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Date:      Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:14:12 -0500
From:      Greg Mars <authentec@gmail.com>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Rudy <crapsh@monkeybrains.net>
Subject:   Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!
Message-ID:  <47801D54.8050709@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <477FFF63.50004@gmail.com>
References:  <64c038660801040516u5c42a6cpadb475ad67fb4730@mail.gmail.com>	<20080104174955.52aa33fd@gumby.homeunix.com>	<64c038660801041029t1a9662bayed3ca02fd46c7ece@mail.gmail.com>	<64c038660801041226k1d350bc6p727e4666ea295727@mail.gmail.com>	<477FFE14.1010704@monkeybrains.net> <477FFF63.50004@gmail.com>

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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> Rudy wrote:
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>> With all this talk about FLASH, I found something out by trial and
>> error and want to post again to the list so that others searching
>> can get the FLASH player working in their brower:
>>
>> THIS STEP IS NEEDED OR FLASH WILL NOT WORK:
>>
>> sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.20
>>     
>
> I am using 8-current (amd64) and found all I needed to do was install
> www/linux-flashplugin7 then do a nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and flash
> works fine (as far I can tell)...   does this add any functionality I
> am not aware of?  (namely some sites seem to partially load like the
> graphs at whos.among.us [the easiest way to test this is go to the
> site in my signature then click on the 3rd icon at the bottom and then
> click on graphs])
>   
>> Better yet, add this to your /etc/sysctl.conf file and reboot:
>> compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.20
>>
>> NOTE: I just picked 2.6.20 kinda at random... seems like that is
>> the linux kernel number (which I know nothing about) for the Fedora
>> 7 release.  Oh, and I installed Fedora 7 instead of the default
>> Fedora Core 4 on my desktop.
>>
>> Why does the linux emulation pick 2.4.2 as the kernel version
>> number to report (by default) and not 2.6.11 (their kernel version
>> shipped with Fedora 4)?  Seems like the ports should and linux
>> module should be updated...
>>
>> Rudy _______________________________________________
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> Aryeh M. Friedman
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Thank You!

I tried getting flash to work in FreeBSD so many times and failed.
It wasn't a big deal but it was annoying to have to boot into another 
system if there is content I needed to see that happens to be flash.

I'm running FreeBSD 7 Beta4.

I just did what you said:
cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7
make config-recursive install clean
nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

After that a flash content was playing in firefox.
Unfortunately my AudigyLS soundcard only works with oss, which is having 
some problems now, so I was not able to verify that sound works well.

By the way, I had some problems installing flash7 from ports a few days ago.
It didn't like the size of the file and would fail even if you 
downloaded from Adobe and copied to ports/disfiles. I later did a 
'portsnap fetch update'  that  must have gotten updated makefiles and 
fixed that problems. Anybody else with that issue should try updating 
the ports collection.



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