>> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to >> the following thread: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM >> >> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to >> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download >> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a >> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried >> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding >> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but >> there is a checksum failure with that file: >> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html >> >> Does anyone have advice for navigating this? >> >> - Grant > > I was able to install hal via the kde-sunset overlay instead of the > multilib overlay. Now instead of the "Updating Player" error, flash > crashes like this in firefox and chrome: > > chrome[3681]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f677543202c sp 00007f6764804e00 > error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7f6775422000+3e000] > > plugin-containe[3727]: segfault at 18 ip 00007fd0225d502c sp > 00007fd0118bce00 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7fd0225c5000+3e000] > > I re-emerged dbus to no avail. Any ideas? > > - Grant
It's working! I had forgotten to start hald. Now all of the videos on Amazon Prime are working. - Grant
