Hi,
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:03:08AM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote:
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
Hi,
The sake of completeness, I think it's worth mentionning that when
using
nspluginwrapper, it is theorically possible to run the Flash plugin
(and
other ones too) inside QEMU.
This is possible but slow and I used a very old version of QEMU. IIRC, the
OpenSUSE wiki mentions how to do
Sean Cavanaugh writes:
AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the
ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a news article iI
came across they were actually hiring a whole new department
whose sole purpose was to add more of the older cards to the open
sorce
for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer
acceptable. Bounty established...)
Sean Cavanaugh writes:
AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the
ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a news article iI
came across they were actually hiring a whole new
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 Ben Kaduk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
fglrx is the only way that anyone's going to get true 3D OpenGL support, and
the last time I checked that wasn't available except for ancient cards on
FreeBSD. AMD was supposed to be helping ATI, but it appears that after
the merger all that's happened is a website change and ATI's drivers
Mike Meyer writes:
[...]
I'm not sure those are the drivers Theierry wants. The proprietary
driver was called fglrx, not radeon or radeonhd. Those two drivers
have been in the X open source trees for quite a while now. I first
started using the radeon driver on amd64 in late 2006. The
Greetings,
Mark Carlson wrote:
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
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ?
Well, I'm using radeonhd right now on a
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Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit :
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ?
Well, I'm using
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit :
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
drivers (and the
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 Ben Kaduk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ?
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:52:30 +0300
Stefan Lambrev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried this before and have a bad luck of not having working audio
on flash, but today with new wine and FF3 it works.
Btw there is a small nasty problem copy/paste from wine app to native
apps does not work. Ideas
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:21:53PM +0100, RW wrote:
Btw there is a small nasty problem copy/paste from wine app to native
apps does not work. Ideas how to workaround this?
It's only the traditional X, select and middle-click, that
doesn't work in my experience
The windows-style
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
First, a bounty has been posted here:
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:41 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
First, a bounty has been
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
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Scott T. Hildreth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:41 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from
Mark Carlson wrote:
On 6/19/08, John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. Elided ...
[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
Do you have a How To RTFM Cook book / script URL
Julian Stacey wrote:
Mark Carlson wrote:
On 6/19/08, John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. Elided ...
[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
Do you have a How To RTFM Cook
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,
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:36:42 -0400
Naram Qashat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Julian Stacey wrote:
Mark Carlson wrote:
On 6/19/08, John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. Elided ...
[1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary
Compat anyway...
I've found wine +
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Le Tuesday 24 June 2008, Garrett Cooper a écrit :
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Scott T. Hildreth
[SNIP]
(not designed to be troll-bait, just my personal opinion on the matter
-- don't comment on it please) FWIW, Personally I don't think that
Flash support is as critical as
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:40:44PM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote:
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:
,--- You/Mark (Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:41:07 -0600) *
| I'm not at my box right now, but it went something like this:
| ...
| I might write up some better instructions when I have the time, but
| I really don't have a good place to put them.
`---*
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
Nonsense. This presumes anything
On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Murray Stokely wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability
to
support Flash in a stable,
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:39:06AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
First, a bounty has been posted here:
http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
From the site:
Believe it or not, there is useful content on the web in Flash :
Google [Flash filetype:swf site:nasa.gov]
(without the brackets).
There might be useful content, but that surely doesnt mean FreeBSD
itself as a desktop isnt usable, I think saying using firefox/flash for
flash based websites is
Quoting John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
First, a bounty has been posted here:
http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
From the site:
---snip---
I will pay $200 to whoever can compose a working and stable recipe for
Quoting Roman Divacky [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Fri, 20 Jun 2008
10:04:16 +0200):
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:39:06AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
First, a bounty has been posted here:
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
First, a bounty has been posted here:
http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
Maybe the bounty would be
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
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John Kozubik wrote:
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| Don't shoot the messenger:
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| FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
| support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
gnash-devel provides flash 9 and works pretty well...
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
Nonsense. This presumes anything useful has ever been written in
flash.
Free flash alternatives and flash
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