Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 18:04:54 +0200 From: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> To: ben paley <ben.pyttipanna@spooty.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE and Flash Message-ID: <AANLkTinrbn=qHUQp8XEMRx7=y-aT_CgmkmC7gY7ViJGz@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D2339CA.1010309@spooty.net> References: <4D2339CA.1010309@spooty.net>
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On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:16 PM, ben paley <ben.pyttipanna@spooty.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using FreeBSD since 3.4 but I've been away for a while. Now I've > put 8.2 on an old laptop, and everything's lovely except power management > (I'll get round to that eventually) and the Flash plug in. > > I've followed the steps at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html without any > errors, except that neither Firefox nor any other browser will play flash > movies. about:plugins doesn't show a flash plugin. > > I've spent a while googling and all I can find is variations on the > instructions from the handbook. I don't know where to start looking for the > problem. > > I'd be really grateful to whoever could point me in the right direction. > > Thanks a lot, > Ben One common mistake is running "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" as root.
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