Re: firefox+flash = i'cant got to my shell
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:12:04PM -0800, Viktor Penkov wrote: Hello.I want to install flash and using it with firefox.I used this guide - http://freebsdgirl.com/2005/06/freebsd_firefox_flash.html That guide is almost 3 yrs old. Totally useless. When i rebooted my system i got this message /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by -sh /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by sh Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: I can't get into my shell. I tryed to use /rescue. When it asked me again for the pathname i typed this /rescue/sh.I wanted to edit the libmap.conf with vi but when i typed vi i got this vi: no terminal database found How to fix this? Thnx When you get the prompt to hit return for /bin/sh, do so. You will be given a prompt, then you can mount your partitions, fire up vi undo everything you did to install flash. After that reboot into the normal, multi-user mode. To install flash, search the archive of this list. In the last few months the installation of flash has come up more than once. It's fairly straightforward: install linux-flashplugin then nspluginwrapper run it. It works with native firefox. -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox+flash = i'cant got to my shell
Hi Viktor, Looking at that page, you don't need to mount your partitions. You should be able to edit /etc/libmap.conf directly. Apologies for the error. -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firefox+flash = i'cant got to my shell
Hello.I want to install flash and using it with firefox.I used this guide - http://freebsdgirl.com/2005/06/freebsd_firefox_flash.html.When i rebooted my system i got this message /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by -sh /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object pluginwrapper/flash6.so not found, required by sh Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: I can't get into my shell. I tryed to use /rescue. When it asked me again for the pathname i typed this /rescue/sh.I wanted to edit the libmap.conf with vi but when i typed vi i got this vi: no terminal database found How to fix this? Thnx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linux-firefox+flash=crash
hi all i wanted to put linux-firefox because i read somewhere it can use the flash plugin. so i got the the linux-firefox on. the thing downloaded and installed the plugin through the browser plugin interface. now every time i go to youtube (or any other flash site) the browser crashes immediately... what's the trick? thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:25:18AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all i wanted to put linux-firefox because i read somewhere it can use the flash plugin. so i got the the linux-firefox on. the thing downloaded and installed the plugin through the browser plugin interface. now every time i go to youtube (or any other flash site) the browser crashes immediately... what's the trick? The trick is flash9 is still very unstable. Try removing it and installing www/linux-flashplugin7 from ports. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: linux-firefox+flash=crash
Well, I have tried both plugins 7 and 9, they both seem to be giving me difficulties, I try installing from ports/packages, but still the same issues. Installation for version 7 seems a pain hence I have to crease symbolic links to browser_plugins in order for firefox to pick them up. I am not sure if the development team is working in a functional port for this for the upcoming release 7.0, I switch my desktop completely to FreeBSD 6.2-Release with updated xorg 7.2, still doing some of the administrative work in the Win boxes using rdesktop, but this OS seems pretty stable and when I am ready I am thinking of migrating all my Win Servers to FBSD, BSD rocks. The next thing that needs some work is Quicktime and Flash, what would be a desktop without those plugins? Any ideas are welcome on making these two things to work. BTW, you guys are doing a wonderful job in the mailing list. Lisandro Grullon Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:38:25 +0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:25:18AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all i wanted to put linux-firefox because i read somewhere it can use the flash plugin. so i got the the linux-firefox on. the thing downloaded and installed the plugin through the browser plugin interface. now every time i go to youtube (or any other flash site) the browser crashes immediately... what's the trick? The trick is flash9 is still very unstable. Try removing it and installing www/linux-flashplugin7 from ports. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Can you find the hidden words? Take a break and play Seekadoo! http://club.live.com/seekadoo.aspx?icid=seek_wlmailtextlink___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 15:36:00 Lisandro Grullon wrote: Well, I have tried both plugins 7 and 9, they both seem to be giving me difficulties, I try installing from ports/packages, but still the same issues. So far, swfdec (graphics/swfdec and the plugin www/swfdec-plugin) is the only one that works reliably and it has a nice feature (I consider it a feature) that it gives you a pause screen when a flash is loaded, so that you don't get the flashy ads flickering your screen. Movies from youtube work, but they have a huge lag and it's more like a slideshow then a movie. However, it's more promising then any of the linux-flashplugin* stuff I've seen past few years and it looks like it's actively developed from scratch rather then trying to make Macromedia linux spaghetti work. I had one crash, when a page loaded 5 different movies and during loading I clicked a slider control in the non-flash part of the page. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: linux-firefox+flash=crash
Thank you Mel, I guess is tie to start looking into a different direction hence Macromedia do not want to open the code for us, I will give swfdec a try and see if the lag time is good enough for me to play animate pages. Thanks again for your input. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:27:02 +0200 Subject: Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash On Tuesday 18 September 2007 15:36:00 Lisandro Grullon wrote: Well, I have tried both plugins 7 and 9, they both seem to be giving me difficulties, I try installing from ports/packages, but still the same issues. So far, swfdec (graphics/swfdec and the plugin www/swfdec-plugin) is the only one that works reliably and it has a nice feature (I consider it a feature) that it gives you a pause screen when a flash is loaded, so that you don't get the flashy ads flickering your screen. Movies from youtube work, but they have a huge lag and it's more like a slideshow then a movie. However, it's more promising then any of the linux-flashplugin* stuff I've seen past few years and it looks like it's actively developed from scratch rather then trying to make Macromedia linux spaghetti work. I had one crash, when a page loaded 5 different movies and during loading I clicked a slider control in the non-flash part of the page. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ More photos; more messages; more whatever – Get MORE with Windows Live™ Hotmail®. NOW with 5GB storage. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-usocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_5G_0907___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:41:08AM -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Thank you Mel, I guess is tie to start looking into a different direction hence Macromedia do not want to open the code for us, I will give swfdec a try and see if the lag time is good enough for me to play animate pages. Thanks again for your input. I haven't seen a single bit of flash in months on any of my desktops. Would youtube make me more productive? Possibly, but I have to doubt it... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux-firefox+flash=crash
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 22:32:51 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: I haven't seen a single bit of flash in months on any of my desktops. Would youtube make me more productive? Possibly, but I have to doubt it... I'm sure this is message is classified as productive. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:38:48 -0400
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for User
Mode Emulation. So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if
I am hosting it under FreeBSD?
sure, works fine under freebsd. I just did a pkg_info -R qemu* and it doesn't
*seem* to depend on anything linux... the Makefile doesnt make any reference to
it either.
I've only used it for hosting a WinXP-Pro guest - it's not as fast as
VMWare,but i'm switching to linux just for that reason. And i wont be buying
vmware workstation linux licenses (needed for VmWare Workstaion 3.x on FreeBSD
host) - my Wkstation-Windows licenses are just fine (but not valid for linux,
according to vmware's support).
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Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for User Mode Emulation. So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if I am hosting it under FreeBSD? It's a proper virtual machine, not like jail(8). Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines for a list of alternatives. On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:01:01PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: I've only used it for hosting a WinXP-Pro guest - it's not as fast as VMWare,but i'm switching to linux just for that reason. And i wont be buying vmware workstation linux licenses (needed for VmWare Workstaion 3.x on FreeBSD host) - my Wkstation-Windows licenses are just fine (but not valid for linux, according to vmware's support). QEMU can read and write vmdk files, so you may have an easy migration path. But if your issue is speed, have you looked at the kqemu-kmod port? It's the bit that allows guest code to run directly on the host cpu. YMMV, but it seems to allow QEMU to run Windows guests at about the same speed as VMWare. http://qemu.org/qemu-accel.html for details. p -- Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] it.canadahttp://www.it.ca/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:45:03 -0400
Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
QEMU can read and write vmdk files, so you may have an easy migration
path.
Well, i tried loading a pre-existing vmdk from Windows Vmware Wkstation 4.5 and
it just didnt work (it'd stall). I have to admit I couldn't spend much more
time on it so I moved on.
But if your issue is speed, have you looked at the kqemu-kmod
port? It's the bit that allows guest code to run directly on the host
cpu. YMMV, but it seems to allow QEMU to run Windows guests at about
the same speed as VMWare. http://qemu.org/qemu-accel.html for details.
Definitely using kqemu-kmod. I was developing with eclipse under win32 and it
was rather painful... interestingly enough, the clock
inside the vm was ticking like crazy (4 or so times as fast as normal ) - i
ended up syncwing via ntp every 90 seconds :D. It could well be a fault in my
qemu config (pretty vanilla one ) but for what I need(ed) it, it does its
job.
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Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure
On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:38, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically take you to the linux page of the flash plugin in the adobe website. Then download the flash plugin tar.gz and save it to some location. Extract the contents and copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/plugins. Close opera and open again and enjoy the world of flash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Family, I'm running 6.1, installed linux-opera from ports in order to test the above, and the ports install seemed to go fine but I got this error when trying to start Opera, anyone seen this before? ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera opera: Preference initialization failure. File not found or could not be opened (-7) ## Why are you trying to run it that way? What happens if you just type linux-opera from an xterm? (/usr/local/bin/linux-opera on my machine). JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:30:59PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:22:38 +0100
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash.
Why not try Wine? I haven't checked, but maybe firefox + flash does work under
wine... i also keep a 4 GB Qemu windows xp setup which gets my out of trouble
the few times when it's window-or-nothing.. most of the time i just give up
altogether on the site.
Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for User
Mode Emulation. So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if
I am hosting it under FreeBSD?
This is the first time I have run in to Qemu and it looks interesting.
jerry
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Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu
On 18 Sep Jerry McAllister wrote: Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for User Mode Emulation. So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if I am hosting it under FreeBSD? This is the first time I have run in to Qemu and it looks interesting. Qemu is great. I have a few systems in a qemu directory which I simply call from a command windows with the right options. At the moment I run XP/pro, Win98se, FreeDOS and a 'real' MS-DOS system under Qemu *on_FreeBSD*. They all run great. Sound, networking, all. -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu
On 18 September 2006, at 09:38, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:30:59PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:22:38 +0100
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash.
Why not try Wine? I haven't checked, but maybe firefox + flash
does work under
wine... i also keep a 4 GB Qemu windows xp setup which gets my out
of trouble
the few times when it's window-or-nothing.. most of the time i
just give up
altogether on the site.
Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for User
Mode Emulation. So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if
I am hosting it under FreeBSD?
If it needs linux, use linux compatibility.
This is the first time I have run in to Qemu and it looks interesting.
jerry
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Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure
I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically take you to the linux page of the flash plugin in the adobe website. Then download the flash plugin tar.gz and save it to some location. Extract the contents and copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/plugins. Close opera and open again and enjoy the world of flash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 08:33:11PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically take you to the linux page of the flash plugin in the adobe website. Then download the flash plugin tar.gz and save it to some location. Extract the contents and copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/plugins. Close opera and open again and enjoy the world of flash I also use linux-opera...but there some site that are running flash 8 that won't work with the most current adobe flash version 7. -- FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 GENERIC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure
On Saturday 16 September 2006 11:38, ajm wrote: I also use linux-opera...but there some site that are running flash 8 that won't work with the most current adobe flash version 7. A somewhat similar problem is starting to crop up with mplayer and the latest version of WMV codecs. I seems that a few sites are using the new code and mplayer is unable to interpret it correctly. I was just on the mplayer forum where it was being discussed along with the URLs of some of those sites. It is my belief though that mplayer will get the necessary changes make to remedy this problem faster than a fully functioning and current version of flash for FBSD is available. -- Gerard QUARK: The sound made by a well bred duck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure
At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically take you to the linux page of the flash plugin in the adobe website. Then download the flash plugin tar.gz and save it to some location. Extract the contents and copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/plugins. Close opera and open again and enjoy the world of flash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Family, I'm running 6.1, installed linux-opera from ports in order to test the above, and the ports install seemed to go fine but I got this error when trying to start Opera, anyone seen this before? ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /usr/X11R6/share/linux-opera/bin/opera opera: Preference initialization failure. File not found or could not be opened (-7) ## TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com * If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure
On Saturday 16 September 2006 16:03, Viswas Nair wrote: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. For the third time, it has multiple critical vulnerabilities. If you use it your computer may work like a charm for someone else. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 06:45:56PM +0100, RW wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 16:03, Viswas Nair wrote: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. For the third time, it has multiple critical vulnerabilities. If you use it your computer may work like a charm for someone else. I heard you the first time. Adobe have released a patched version (7.0.68) that addresses these vulnerabilities. The Freshmeat notice went out yesterday, so I'm sure it is just a matter of time before the maintainer revs the FreeBSD port. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Is the language/interpreter used by FLASH copyrighted, so that there isn't any possibility for an open source player ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:57 -0700, White Hat wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps persuade them to try FBSD? I have KDE and Firefox installed obviously. I tried loading a few of the flash packages available in the ports, but they did not not seem to work. Thanks! This works for me, make sure you have the src tree under /usr/src. http://www.unixlike.com.br/?p=%2081 There's an english translation somewhere, but if you just follow the commands you'll be ok. Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On 9/14/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. -- -Chuck Unfortunately a lot of consumer sites are starting to use flash as a semi-static and predictable way to deliver content to people; it's incredibly annoying, and becomes very noticeable once you install stuff that blocks SWF files: http://www.noscript.net/whats :). Thus, that is one solution to get rid of your ads (adblock+ is another, but meh), so you can keep Flash functionality and get rid of crappy Flash animations, while surfing the net. Also, FYI: a lot of sites have built animations with (Adobe) Flash 9, so unless you have a Windows or Mac PC nearby you probably won't be able to load up animations on a Unix PC as the latest version available is 7. Go to http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform and ask adobe for a native version of flash for FreeBSD. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 14:57:28 -0700 White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps persuade them to try FBSD? Adobe have announced that Flash 8 and all previous versions have multiple critical vulnerabilities. Presumably Adobe have been sitting on these bugs for some time; a month or so after the release of Flash 9 is pretty convenient for them. Since the highest version of the linux plugin is 7, there is currently no Adobe version that can be run safely on Linux, BSD or Solaris. I understand that Adobe have indicated that there will eventually be a Linux Flash 9, and hopefully it will work on FreeBSD. There are open source versions, but they aren't much good in my experience, I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos programs that are all in flash and others that use it for graphic demonstrations. So, it is a feature that is desired by many. It pains me to have to reboot to Microsloth to see something on those sites. jerry -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On 09/15/06 03:31, felix.schalck wrote: Is the language/interpreter used by FLASH copyrighted, so that there isn't any possibility for an open source player ? There is Gnash: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should provide their videos in a proper way. I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great. Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet. Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me. By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little. jerry --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Friday 15 September 2006 10:34, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos programs that are all in flash and others that use it for graphic demonstrations. So, it is a feature that is desired by many. It pains me to have to reboot to Microsloth to see something on those sites. I concure; having to use a different PC just to view a web page is a negative factor. I have also noticed that several sites, one bing CBSNews. is now doing streaming real-time video; however, it is only viewable via MS Media Player. It specifically states on the web page that 'realplayer' is not fully compatible and not used for many of the feeds. It would be nice if a fully compatible player were available for FBSD. I hate switching between PCs. -- Gerard God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak. Arab proverb pgpwZdpR7s517.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox+Flash
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should provide their videos in a proper way. I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great. Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet. Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me. By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little. It's there: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/svg/ Your browser has to support SVG 1.1 Tiny to view it. I know that Firefox (even 2.0) and Konqueror don't support it yet. Opera supports it from version 8 on. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
michael johnson wrote: On 9/14/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. -- -Chuck Unfortunately a lot of consumer sites are starting to use flash as a semi-static and predictable way to deliver content to people; it's incredibly annoying, and becomes very noticeable once you install stuff that blocks SWF files: http://www.noscript.net/whats :). Thus, that is one solution to get rid of your ads (adblock+ is another, but meh), so you can keep Flash functionality and get rid of crappy Flash animations, while surfing the net. Also, FYI: a lot of sites have built animations with (Adobe) Flash 9, so unless you have a Windows or Mac PC nearby you probably won't be able to load up animations on a Unix PC as the latest version available is 7. Go to http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform and ask adobe for a native version of flash for FreeBSD. Great! I bet if everybody fills out this form and asks for a FreeBSD native version they will perhaps pay attention. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should provide their videos in a proper way. I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great. Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet. Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me. By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little. It's there: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/svg/ Your browser has to support SVG 1.1 Tiny to view it. I know that Firefox (even 2.0) and Konqueror don't support it yet. Opera supports it from version 8 on. OK. I see it. But since I am running Firefox, it doesn't do much. Are you proposing to add SVG to Firefox or create a 'plugin' for Firefox? jerry --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 10:34, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos programs that are all in flash and others that use it for graphic demonstrations. So, it is a feature that is desired by many. �It pains me to have to reboot to Microsloth to see something on those sites. I concure; having to use a different PC just to view a web page is a negative factor. I have also noticed that several sites, one bing CBSNews. is now doing streaming real-time video; however, it is only viewable via MS Media Player. It specifically states on the web page that 'realplayer' is not fully compatible and not used for many of the feeds. It would be nice if a fully compatible player were available for FBSD. I hate switching between PCs. MPlayer handles wmv streams just fine. You may want to check out www/mplayer-plugin, it works perfectly for mozilla. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Jerry McAllister writes: Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me. I am running into an increasing number of web sites - including those of mega-corporations - where the home page is 100% Flash, leaving no way to get inside if you don't do .swf. Short of a native Flash Player (not holding my breath), the correct long-term solution is for someone with the right skill-set (regrettably not me) to fix www/linuxpluginwrapper. This will not only make using Linux Flash players feasible, but will bring joy to the hearts of the many who want to use other Linux plugins. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Friday 15 September 2006 12:01, Jona Joachim wrote: [...] MPlayer handles wmv streams just fine. You may want to check out www/mplayer-plugin, it works perfectly for mozilla. OK, I all ready have that installed. How am I suppose to configure it so that when I click on a link that is suppose to require MS Media Player it intercepts it and displays the streaming video? -- Gerard Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely. Vint Cerf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:34:01AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos programs that are all in flash and others that use it for graphic demonstrations. So, it is a feature that is desired by many. It pains me to have to reboot to Microsloth to see something on those sites. You can visit www.linuxcbt.com (cue the Linux jokes) for an illustrative example. All the videos are in swf format, most likely generated using vnc2swf (available in ports, FWIW) or something similar. As a side note, mplayer doesn't support the swf format either. I once subscribed to the notion that Flash was wholly unecessary and the domain of ad companies, all the while knowing that there are amazingly creative sites (targeted at creative types or folks with creative budgets) done entirely in Flash that most people, myself included, couldn't fault. It wasn't too long before I ended up installing the requisite browser plugin. Flash is now more popular than ever. And with Adobe's recent purchase of Macromedia, it would be naive to believe that Flash is going to fade away, or be relegated to a corner somewhere. Unwelcome ads of any sort can be blocked with little trouble -- it's the remaining content that's the problem, and there's more of it out there every day. That said, the linux-firefox approach does work surprisingly (or not so surprisingly) well, as does acroread (a must for those of us with notebooks or LCD screens). Doesn't mean I'm any less annoyed at the state of affairs. Or any more inclined to install Linux. ;-) Cheers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 12:01, Jona Joachim wrote: [...] MPlayer handles wmv streams just fine. You may want to check out www/mplayer-plugin, it works perfectly for mozilla. OK, I all ready have that installed. How am I suppose to configure it so that when I click on a link that is suppose to require MS Media Player it intercepts it and displays the streaming video? The MPlayer plugin loads the streams on the cbsnews.com front page just fine. What browser are you using? I know that the plugin works fine with Mozilla and Firefox but it doesn't work in Opera (unfortunately). Type about:plugins in the location bar and check for the Windows Media Player Plugin entry. If you can't find it in the list then the browser can't find the plugin, reinstalling may help. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should provide their videos in a proper way. I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great. Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet. Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me. By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little. It's there: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/svg/ Your browser has to support SVG 1.1 Tiny to view it. I know that Firefox (even 2.0) and Konqueror don't support it yet. Opera supports it from version 8 on. OK. I see it. But since I am running Firefox, it doesn't do much. Are you proposing to add SVG to Firefox or create a 'plugin' for Firefox? SVG 1.1 Tiny became a W3C recommendation on 14th January 2003 so I believe they will implement it sonner or later --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Friday 15 September 2006 13:38, Jona Joachim wrote: The MPlayer plugin loads the streams on the cbsnews.com front page just fine. What browser are you using? I know that the plugin works fine with Mozilla and Firefox but it doesn't work in Opera (unfortunately). Type about:plugins in the location bar and check for the Windows Media Player Plugin entry. If you can't find it in the list then the browser can't find the plugin, reinstalling may help. There is nothing there about MPLayer. I have both Firefox and linux-firefox installed. MPlayer works fine when I use it directly. How can I get it added to the plugins for Firefox? -- Gerard Whatever became of eternal truth? pgpOiPyfm0MFY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Sep 15, 2006, at 10:29 AM, George Allan wrote: I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos programs that are all in flash and others that use it for graphic demonstrations. So, it is a feature that is desired by many. It pains me to have to reboot to Microsloth to see something on those sites. You can visit www.linuxcbt.com (cue the Linux jokes) for an illustrative example. All the videos are in swf format, most likely generated using vnc2swf (available in ports, FWIW) or something similar. As a side note, mplayer doesn't support the swf format either. That site seems to be selling instructional videos for $200 a pop. While I suppose some people would pay that much to watch something in Flash like how to configure sendmail, rather than read the docs that come with the sendmail source tarball (or buy the O'Reilly Bat book, or subscribe to comp.mail.sendmail and ask there), and they are welcome to make such a decision, it would not be the decision I would make myself. Responding to another point made in this thread: On Sep 15, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Robert Huff wrote: I am running into an increasing number of web sites - including those of mega-corporations - where the home page is 100% Flash, leaving no way to get inside if you don't do .swf. The major problem with such an approach is that pure-Flash-based sites prevent critical aspects of browser functionality from working as designed-- things like bookmarks, the back button, and so forth. Once in a while, I send a polite message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] indicating that a pure Flash site is a problem for those people who do not have Flash, and that if they decide to exclude potential customers (or partners, or investors, etc) as a result, well, doing so is their loss. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
--On Friday, September 15, 2006 14:27:37 -0400 Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 13:38, Jona Joachim wrote: The MPlayer plugin loads the streams on the cbsnews.com front page just fine. What browser are you using? I know that the plugin works fine with Mozilla and Firefox but it doesn't work in Opera (unfortunately). Type about:plugins in the location bar and check for the Windows Media Player Plugin entry. If you can't find it in the list then the browser can't find the plugin, reinstalling may help. There is nothing there about MPLayer. I have both Firefox and linux-firefox installed. MPlayer works fine when I use it directly. How can I get it added to the plugins for Firefox? Use: www/mplayer-plugin www/linux-mplayer-plugin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:22:38 +0100
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash.
Why not try Wine? I haven't checked, but maybe firefox + flash does work under
wine... i also keep a 4 GB Qemu windows xp setup which gets my out of trouble
the few times when it's window-or-nothing.. most of the time i just give up
altogether on the site.
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Firefox+Flash
FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps persuade them to try FBSD? I have KDE and Firefox installed obviously. I tried loading a few of the flash packages available in the ports, but they did not not seem to work. Thanks! -- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
--- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps persuade them to try FBSD? Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On 9/14/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps persuade them to try FBSD? Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. You can always just use www/linux-firefox and use flash with it. It works quite well. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
--- michael johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all work? -- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On 9/14/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- michael johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all work? Don't deinstall firefox. just install linux-firefox with firefox. www/linux-flashplugin7 has the plugin you want -- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should provide their videos in a proper way. I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great. Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:56:30PM -0400, michael johnson wrote: On 9/14/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can I get flash to work so I can perhaps persuade them to try FBSD? Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. You can always just use www/linux-firefox and use flash with it. It works quite well. I use www/linux-opera. No problems here... -- FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 GENERIC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. -- -Chuck Unfortunately a lot of consumer sites are starting to use flash as a semi-static and predictable way to deliver content to people; it's incredibly annoying, and becomes very noticeable once you install stuff that blocks SWF files: http://www.noscript.net/whats :). Thus, that is one solution to get rid of your ads (adblock+ is another, but meh), so you can keep Flash functionality and get rid of crappy Flash animations, while surfing the net. Also, FYI: a lot of sites have built animations with (Adobe) Flash 9, so unless you have a Windows or Mac PC nearby you probably won't be able to load up animations on a Unix PC as the latest version available is 7. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
At Thu, 14 Sep 2006 it looks like White Hat composed: --- michael johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all work? Yes, I just went to test my bandwidth at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest in order to see their gauge for I was told it was nice, but it would not fly, had to switch to another Unix variant to get it to work. -- Bill Schoolcraft * http://wiliweld.com * If you turn your headlights on while going the speed of light, does anything happen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firefox + flash translation
Greetings all! I was thumbing through the archives and noticed that someone posted a link to the following site: http://www.unixlike.com.br/?p=%2081 They mentioned they couldn't read the language it was written in, so I translated it. Hopefully this will help some people. It was written in Brazilian portuguese. My translation is available at: http://altbit.org/pseudorandom/unixlike_translation.txt Warm regards, cmh -- Christopher M. Hobbs Systems Technician, City of Siloam Springs [EMAIL PROTECTED], (479).524.5136 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox + flash translation
Em Ter, 2006-07-18 às 14:14 +, Christopher Hobbs escreveu: Greetings all! I was thumbing through the archives and noticed that someone posted a link to the following site: http://www.unixlike.com.br/?p=%2081 They mentioned they couldn't read the language it was written in, so I translated it. Hopefully this will help some people. It was written in Brazilian portuguese. My translation is available at: http://altbit.org/pseudorandom/unixlike_translation.txt Warm regards, cmh Thanks Cmh... it was time to translate to some more international language... even if portuguese is an easy language (here the kids about 3 years old speak it very well...) the information should be shared in english Thanks again... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox + Flash work
Anyone looking for a quick solution, this is what worked for me on FreeBSD 6.0 Release. I have /usr/ports extracted from the 6.0 Release ISO CD. I also have a directory which I named /home/newports extracted from the latest portsnap download: portsnap -p /home/newports fetch portsnap -p /home/newports extract followd by portsnap -p /home/newports update The following steps gave me firefox 1.0.7 with a working flash 6 plugin: cd /usr/ports/www/firefox make install clean cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin6 make install clean cd /home/newports/www/linuxpluginwrapper make install clean cp -i /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 /etc/libmap.conf Finally edit /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh and add /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6 to MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (near the end of the script) (colon-separated path components) Now run firefox as usual. That was it for me. Hope this or some variation of this helps anyone who needs a working setup quickly. Various linux compatibility packages got installed in the process as dependencies (list below) but none gave me any trouble. linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_3 XFree86 libraries, Linux binary linux-expat-1.95.5_3 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Mozilla and linux-flashplugin-7.0r61 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Mozilla and linux-fontconfig-2.1_3 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig linux-glib2-2.2.1_3 Version 2.X Linux/i386 binary port of GLib linux_base-8-8.0_6 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only for i386) linuxpluginwrapper-20051113 A wrapper allowing use of linux-plugins with native applica Unfortunately the build of firefox 1.5 in /home/newports breaks for me, so I cannot get firefox 1.5 and flash working together in this manner yet. Also, I installed linux-flashplugin7 the same way, however, it crashes firefox 1.0.7 immediately at start, so I removed the plugin path for flash 7 from MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH. Firefox 1.0.7 + Flash 6 will keep me running until the new versions stabilize. Chandan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
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From: Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005-10-3 11:02
Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
To: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Flash problem is solved!!!
The problem was in step 2:
2. Install linuxpluginwrapper:
# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
# make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean
I just explored the /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/Makefile and I saw this:
.if !defined(WITHOUT_PLUGINS)
RUN_DEPENDS=${X11BASE}/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so:${PORTSDIR}/
www/linux-flashplugin6
RUN_DEPENDS+= ${X11BASE}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so:${PORTSDIR}/mult
imedia/linux-realplayer
#RUN_DEPENDS+= ${LINUXBASE}/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf
.so:${PORTSDIR}/print/acroread7
.if ${OSVERSION} 50
USE_MOTIF= yes
.endif
.endif
I had defined WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes, which meant that the nested .if
expession about using Motif on my system was not executed. My system
needs Motif to get the Flash plugin running. So I deinstalled it, and
installed it without defining this configuration variable:
# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
# make install clean
Now, Flash works!!!
You can see also that I've commented out the line that will install
Acroread7 as a dependency, because I thought that Acroread5 will work
just fine for me. Obviously I am mistaken, because I still can't open
*.PDF in an embeded browser. And now, I'm just going to try another
install and maybe will use Acroread7.
Best Regards,
Vladimir
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Re: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
On 10/3/05, Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005-10-3 11:02
Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
To: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Flash problem is solved!!!
The problem was in step 2:
2. Install linuxpluginwrapper:
# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
# make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean
I just explored the /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/Makefile and I saw this:
.if !defined(WITHOUT_PLUGINS)
RUN_DEPENDS=
${X11BASE}/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so:${PORTSDIR}/
www/linux-flashplugin6
RUN_DEPENDS+=
${X11BASE}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so:${PORTSDIR}/mult
imedia/linux-realplayer
#RUN_DEPENDS+=
${LINUXBASE}/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf
.so:${PORTSDIR}/print/acroread7
.if ${OSVERSION} 50
USE_MOTIF= yes
.endif
.endif
I had defined WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes, which meant that the nested .if
expession about using Motif on my system was not executed. My system
needs Motif to get the Flash plugin running. So I deinstalled it, and
installed it without defining this configuration variable:
# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper
# make install clean
Now, Flash works!!!
You can see also that I've commented out the line that will install
Acroread7 as a dependency, because I thought that Acroread5 will work
just fine for me. Obviously I am mistaken, because I still can't open
*.PDF in an embeded browser. And now, I'm just going to try another
install and maybe will use Acroread7.
Best Regards,
Vladimir
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A pr should be sent for the if's to be unnested.
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FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
I did everything like it was described in the how-to's about installing plugins for native Firefox on FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD 4.9 Release, which at this moment is unsupported. 1. Install firefox: # cd /usr/ports/www/firefox ; make install clean 2. Install linuxpluginwrapper: # cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper # make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean I use WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes, because I don't need acroread7 - I have acroread5 and it perfectly fits my needs. I got the following message: Please enable libmap.conf(5) feature for rtld(1). 4-stable user: You can get a following patch. http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/libmap_4stable.diff Please apply on /usr/src and make install on /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff # cd libexec/rtld-elf ; make clean all install 5.1-RELEASE user: Please see /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. 3. Patching: I've downloaded the patch: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/libmap_4stable.diff and than I tried to apply it: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff I got the following message: Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -- |diff -urN libexec/rtld-elf.old/Makefile libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile |--- libexec/rtld-elf.old/Makefile Sun Jun 23 06:32:35 2002 |+++ libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile Wed Oct 8 02:50:10 2003 -- File to patch: Obviously, I don't have /usr/src/libexec sources installed. 4. Install the libexec sources: I put the FreeBSD 4.9 Release installation CD in the CD-ROM. # /stand/sysinstall Configure-Distributions-src-libexec 5. Patch again: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff # cd libexec/rtld-elf ; make clean all install This now works. 6. Another try to install linuxpluginwrapper: # cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper # make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean No problems at all. 7. Install linux-flashplugin6: # cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin6 # make install clean No problems at all. 8. Editing /etc/libmap.conf: # /etc/libmap.conf for FreeBSD 4.x # Flash6 with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libz.so.1 libz.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3libstdc++.so.3 libm.so.6 libm.so.2 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so # Acrobat5 with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so] libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/acrobat.so # Helix RealPlayer with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3libstdc++.so.3 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/realplayer.so I've checked every single Shared Object that is listed in my /etc/libmap.conf. But there are no indications at all, that Firefox is using the installed plugins. Still Firefox continues to inform me about missing plugins. I tried also, to configure Konqueror (3.1.4) to use the new plugins: Settings-Configure Konqueror..-Plugins-Scan for new plugins And I got the following error message: The nspluginscan executable cannot be found. Netscape plugins will not be scanned. I searched the web for this problem and I found this on the freebsd-questions maillist: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/053298.html You have to compile /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 with motif support. Run 'make config' to change that option, then recompile and install it. I tried this, but the message above is outdated (Thu Jul 22 02:13:13 PDT 2004). Currently in the configuration of the kdebase3 port there is only one option: [X] Suid wrapper for aRts, req'd for realtime prio I am aware that the version of FreeBSD that I use is no longer supported, but is there any way to workaround the necessity of moving to 4Stable, and to get a working plugins for the Firefox browser? Best Regards, Vladimir Tsvetkov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
On 10/2/05, Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did everything like it was described in the how-to's about installing plugins for native Firefox on FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD 4.9 Release, which at this moment is unsupported. 1. Install firefox: # cd /usr/ports/www/firefox ; make install clean 2. Install linuxpluginwrapper: # cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper # make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean I use WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes, because I don't need acroread7 - I have acroread5 and it perfectly fits my needs. I got the following message: Please enable libmap.conf(5) feature for rtld(1). 4-stable user: You can get a following patch. http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/libmap_4stable.diff Please apply on /usr/src and make install on /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff # cd libexec/rtld-elf ; make clean all install 5.1-RELEASE user: Please see /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. 3. Patching: I've downloaded the patch: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/libmap_4stable.diff and than I tried to apply it: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff I got the following message: Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me... The text leading up to this was: -- |diff -urN libexec/rtld-elf.old/Makefile libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile |--- libexec/rtld-elf.old/Makefile Sun Jun 23 06:32:35 2002 |+++ libexec/rtld-elf/Makefile Wed Oct 8 02:50:10 2003 -- File to patch: Obviously, I don't have /usr/src/libexec sources installed. 4. Install the libexec sources: I put the FreeBSD 4.9 Release installation CD in the CD-ROM. # /stand/sysinstall Configure-Distributions-src-libexec 5. Patch again: # cd /usr/src ; patch -p0 /tmp/libmap_4stable.diff # cd libexec/rtld-elf ; make clean all install This now works. 6. Another try to install linuxpluginwrapper: # cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper # make WITHOUT_PLUGINS=yes install clean No problems at all. 7. Install linux-flashplugin6: # cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin6 # make install clean No problems at all. 8. Editing /etc/libmap.conf: # /etc/libmap.conf for FreeBSD 4.x # Flash6 with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libz.so.1 libz.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3libstdc++.so.3 libm.so.6 libm.so.2 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so # Acrobat5 with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so] libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/acrobat.so # Helix RealPlayer with Mozilla Firefox [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3libstdc++.so.3 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/realplayer.so I've checked every single Shared Object that is listed in my /etc/libmap.conf. But there are no indications at all, that Firefox is using the installed plugins. Still Firefox continues to inform me about missing plugins. I tried also, to configure Konqueror (3.1.4) to use the new plugins: Settings-Configure Konqueror..-Plugins-Scan for new plugins And I got the following error message: The nspluginscan executable cannot be found. Netscape plugins will not be scanned. I searched the web for this problem and I found this on the freebsd-questions maillist: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/053298.html You have to compile /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 with motif support. Run 'make config' to change that option, then recompile and install it. I tried this, but the message above is outdated (Thu Jul 22 02:13:13 PDT 2004). Currently in the configuration of the kdebase3 port there is only one option: [X] Suid wrapper for aRts, req'd for realtime prio I am aware that the version of FreeBSD that I use is no longer supported, but is there any way to workaround the necessity of moving to 4Stable, and to get a working plugins for the Firefox browser? Best Regards, Vladimir Tsvetkov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd start with trying to recompile the whole world. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD + Firefox + Flash Problems
On Sunday 02 October 2005 15:31, Vladimir Tsvetkov wrote: But there are no indications at all, that Firefox is using the installed plugins. Still Firefox continues to inform me about missing plugins. Did you follow all the instruction that were displayed when linuxpluginwrapper was installed. I didn't see any mention of the last one: $ tail -n 4 /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/pkg-message Now start browser and go to 'about:plugins' and the new plugins are enabled! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
