From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 15:45:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756D61065672 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:45:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ben.pyttipanna@spooty.net) Received: from localhost.surfimpress.com (server217-174-248-30.live-servers.net [217.174.248.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6848FC0C for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pyttipanna.hogsedge8.net (cpc1-brig12-0-0-cust381.3-3.cable.virginmedia.com [82.24.9.126]) by localhost.surfimpress.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5BB5DCE5 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:15:35 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4D2339CA.1010309@spooty.net> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:16:26 +0000 From: ben paley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110103 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 8.2-PRERELEASE and Flash X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:45:49 -0000 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