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Date:      Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:38:05 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?
Message-ID:  <20090725073805.GA11455@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090725013500.GC62402@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20090725013500.GC62402@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ?
> Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to:
> - remove all linux-* ports
> - set the following in /etc/make.conf
> 	OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8
> 	OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8
> - set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf
> 	compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
> - set the following in /etc/fstab
> 	linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc  linprocfs       rw 0 0
> - reinstall linux_base-f8-8_11
> - reinstall linux-flashplugin-10.0r22 (which in turn brings in the
>   relevant linux-f8-* ports)
> 
> - also install nspluginwrapper and create a firefox plugin
> - upgrade firefox to firefox-3.5,1 (native), just in case
> - run firefox with "limit stacksize 4megabytes" (or variants)
>   as recommended to avoid npviewer growing/not dying
> 
> This was done on 3 different machines (one laptop with a centrino,
> 2 desktops with AMD X2 dual core running in i386 mode) with mixed
> [in]success. On one machine thing started working well, but on the
> other two they did not (the various packages were of course slightly
> disaligned) and while trying to replicate the configuration i also
> broke the good one without figuring out why.
> Symptoms are that on certain sites or actions (e.g. switch to full
> screen on youtube videos) i get firefox freezing like this
> 
> 22381 luigi  13  96    0 82580K 57484K ucond   1   0:00  0.20% firefox-bin
> 22413 luigi   1  97    0 72920K 33448K futex   1   0:00  0.20% npviewer.bin
> 22414 luigi   1  97    0 72920K 33448K futex   1   0:00  0.20% npviewer.bin
> 
> and recovering control (but no video) after 10+seconds
> 
> I also get a lot of the following weak_unref warnings with various addresses
> 
> (firefox-bin:22381): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x297ba9f0(0x2a10d110)
> 
> (but not sure how related is this, because it happens even without a
> flash plugin).
> 
> I have also tried flash9 instead of flash10, o fc10 instead of fc8,
> all with similar results.
> 
> Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ?
>

The Handbook gives a reliable, i.e. reproductible one, recipe:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
6.2.3 Firefox and MacromediaŽ Flash Plugin

for running Flash 9 under 7.X and with default linux_base.

I'm also working on an update for 8.X

-- 
Marc



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