Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 10:54:31 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: ben paley <ben.pyttipanna@spooty.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE and Flash Message-ID: <AANLkTimN755jY7YM_rAn_EE3K==2Vu0RU1FNHCU57zQu@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 10:16 AM, 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. > > Did you try symlinking nsplugin.so to $HOME/.mozilla/plugins ? this is usually what I end up doing to make it work. I forget if 64bit flash was fixed or not, if it wasn't you may need nswrapper or the like to run the 32bit plugin binaries. hth/c-
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