Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...
On 6/24/08, Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: > > Do you have a "How To" RTFM Cook book / script URL please ? > > > > I'd like to chime in here and say there is nothing special to get this > configuration to work. Download the Windows version of Firefox and install > it via Wine, then download the Windows version of Flash for Firefox and > install that with Wine. Once you do that, you have Flash in Firefox using > Wine. Like has been said, Wine is far from perfect, but this works great > until a native Flash can be made for FreeBSD. > > Naram Qashat I'm not at my box right now, but it went something like this: 0. Install wine ( emulators/wine ) 1. Download firefox for windows ( http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html ) 2. Run: wine "Firefox Setup 3.0.exe" 3. Complete the installer 4. To run firefox you need to do something like: wine "C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe" (I forget the exact path / command name) 5. Navigate to the adobe flash download page ( use goole or something ) and download the flash installer for windows. 6. When the download is complete, run it ( should be able to do this from the download manager in firefox ) 7. Complete the flash installer ( this will require you to close firefox, so do that ) 8. Start firefox again (see the wine firefox.exe command from above) 9. Create a script to start firefox under wine since the command is so ugly. I might write up some better instructions when I have the time, but I really don't have a good place to put them. -Mark C. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...
On 6/19/08, John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Don't shoot the messenger: > > > FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to > support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion. > > > Running IE in Wine is not a solution. > > Running another OS in vmware to simply browse the web is not a solution. > > Free flash alternatives and flash movie players, etc., are, unfortunately, > not a solution. > > ports/linux-flashplayer9 _is_ a solution, however it (currently) fails > badly. > > > Solution: > > > First, a bounty has been posted here: > > http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html > > We aren't even asking for new code, per se - anyone merely posting a > recipe that allows linux-flashplayer9 to run, without crashing and with > reasonable performance, with a generic browser (opera, firefox, konqueror) > can claim the bounty. In fact, a recipe that is entirely inside the Linux > Binary Compatibility layer would be just fine - running the linux version > of a browser through binary compat is reasonable[1]. > > Second, I am calling on the FreeBSD Foundation to commit time and money to > ensuring that flash functionality is recognized as a high priority for > FreeBSD desktop use. I am willing to donate funds for this purpose. > Flash 9 will not be the baseline forever, and it is inefficient to ramp up > a grass roots bounty effort each time Adobe releases a new product. For > this reason I believe it is reasonable for the project itself to ensure > that Flash support is delivered and maintained in a timely fashion. > > > > [1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary > Compat anyway... I've found wine + firefox + flash to work for everything I've tried so far (youtube, various websites with flash ads, one or two flash-only sites.) It did crash on me once, but I'm not sure it was related to flash. Wine is pretty good, but not perfect. If all you need is to visit flash sites, it's a decent workaround in the mean time. Also, I was very surprised how easy it was to set up (not having used wine before.) -Mark C. P.S. That's some ugly cross-posting you've started there... ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Getting FreeBSD to see my dvd drive
On 7/26/07, Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:07 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > > I've reposted this from freebsd-questions, and added some minor details. > > > > Yesterday I bought and installed a Lite-ON SATA DVD Writer for my > > computer. But FreeBSD fails to recognize it at all. > > > > Hi Joshua. > > FreeBSD doesn't support SATA ATAPI devices iirc. > > Sorry > > That's funny, I was able to install 6.2-release (both 32-bit and 64-bit) just fine from my SATA DVD drive a few weeks ago (LG Super Multi DVD Writer 18x18x10 DVD +/-RW Dual-Layer Lightscribe.) I had no idea FreeBSD didn't support it until I read this email. I have since upgraded to 7.0-CURRENT (32-bit): FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jul 14 21:22:14 MDT 2007 Now, from my dmesg (sorry, didn't keep one from 6.2...): ata5: on atapci1 ata5: SATA ATAPI devices not supported yet ata5: [ITHREAD] I know my BIOS setup is not the same now as it was when I did the initial install, but AFAIK, the only difference is that I had to disable the onboard RAID controller to install to the RAID array then re-enable it to boot off of the array (funny, I know, but it was the only way the BIOS would let me boot off of the SATA DVD drive at all!) -Mark Carlson For posterity, the mobo was a S3000AHLX, which works OK, it'll be nicer when I can get the SMBUS controller working... if I can, that is. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
