Re: firefox flash plug in woes
Tim Clewlow wrote: --- KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous technology in websites. is there any progress on this? i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop Hi there, I have native firefox with flash 7 working fine on FreeBSD 6.2, with java and adobe reader. Note I always install via ports, and they are up to date. Anyway, here is how, you can try it from packages, ie pkg_add -r x - hopefully that works too, but if it doesnt then installing from ports definately does. [ Note, I just copies/pasted this from my notes, there may be later versions of these packages you can also use - but IIRC I had some problems with them ] install www/firefox install print/acroread7 install java/diablo-jdk15 install www/linux-flashplugin7 kldload linux echo none/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 /etc/fstab mount -a echo linux_enable=\YES\ /etc/rc.conf nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Cheers, Tim. We are BSD ... resistance is futile. http://www.freebsd.org/ - http://www.openbsd.org/ - http://www.netbsd.org/ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is what I do and I run flash just fine, too. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?
Yuri wrote: I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done? I have NVidia card but still run 32-bit system because of lack of driver. Yuri ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are correct and, no, this functionality will not be available on 7.0, though someone is working on the problem. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 11:11:41 am Rob Belics wrote: Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about this and would love to respond. My first thought was 'contigmalloc' but I'm not sure it's equivalent. [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn't provide way to specify memory cache. For that reason MS has the beautiful MmAllocateContigousMemorySpecifyCache()[/QUOTE] For kernel memory on i386 and amd64 in 6.3 and later you can use pmap_change_attr() to adjust the caching mode of memory after you have allocated it. It is best used only with allocations that are a multiple of the page size. -- John Baldwin I posted using the wrong email address above. Apparently the person I was referring to was probably talking about he nvidia issue and I see you, John, are working on that pmap function. One question I have is whether nvidia got themselves into a bind (for lack of a better word) because they wrote their drive using Windows functions but now want FreeBSD to create kernel functions just like Windows rather than rewriting their own code. Or is all this truly a lacking feature in FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
