Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:32:02 +0200 From: Oliver Herold <oliver@akephalos.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9 Message-ID: <20071008183201.GA1065@olymp.home> In-Reply-To: <20071008181531.GB1493@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> References: <20071008125558.GE1509@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> <790a9fff0710080752k90c1ac3r23856304f176648e@mail.gmail.com> <20071008174630.665f978e@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20071008181531.GB1493@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl>
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Rather easy nspluginwrapper + Flash9 plugin in Firefox on Current and 6.2
stable. It's to some *extent* usable, but will segfault (only nspluginwrapper)
while playing videos.
Cheers, Oliver
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:15:31PM +0200, Willy Picard wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:46:30PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:52:18 -0500
> > "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 10/8/07, Willy Picard <picard@kti.ae.poznan.pl> wrote:
> >
> > > > The thing that shocked me is the fact that the port is still in the ports
> > > > tree even if it does not work! (It compiles but each try to view a Flash
> > > > animation leads to a segmentation fault of Firefox). If we want the
> > > > FreeBSD community to be focused on quality (I assume we all want), then
> > > > this port should be removed from the ports tree or at least marked as
> > > > broken.
> > > >
> > > the port should be marked broken for OSVERSION < 7000xx, and
> > > compat.linux.osrelease = 2.4.2, as the flash9 plugin may require 2.6.16
> > > linux emulation.
> >
> > No it shouldn't.
> >
> > I've never seen it crash a browser, and it works to a limited extent on
> > some sites that can't be navigated without it.
>
> I am very pleased to read that someone figured out how to make the Flash 9
> plugin work ("to a limited extent"). May I ask you what your configuration is
> (wich OS version) and which "tweaks" do you use (libmap.conf)?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Willy
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