From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 21:37:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 109BE16A419 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:37:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim1timau@yahoo.com) Received: from web50306.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web50306.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B522213C442 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:37:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim1timau@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 67055 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Jan 2008 21:10:19 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=4nykdkxSPnQ7zKlmNm29246xUpFkFUL0b6xfvu7vHHkTutln9eeDfuJwZrtqJk+M2pTIrAvjtjgxQWSZ2GZtuPuyy7hZRmsvZ8fmp1OA0VemXKTZINC1Reh4C9Pcny2AWbg1dAc8dxh6M+89LKwxEOinn9nc4RbT2bnco2eqmVo=; X-YMail-OSG: 9X10QRUVM1lR1YNSzbPItJZt_Das2WPS33J_G4uW Received: from [210.215.149.194] by web50306.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:10:19 PST Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:10:19 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Clewlow To: KAYVEN RIESE In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <406413.65757.qm@web50306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox flash plug in woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:37:01 -0000 --- KAYVEN RIESE 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 xxxxx - 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