From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 13:37:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B87116A420 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:37:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1848A43D62 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:37:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from alpha.home (ppp221-39.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.221.39]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j9KDbftZ082899; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:07:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) From: Malcolm Kay Organization: at home To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:08:45 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200510200113.32091.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200510200113.32091.akbeech@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510202308.45168.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: Beecher Rintoul Subject: Re: Helix plugin with Firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:37:44 -0000 On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:43 pm, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > I would like to get realplayer working in firefox, but it > keeps crashing firefox on load. Launching realplay from the > command line works fine. I have the latest firefox and > linuxpluginwrapper installed and about:plugins in firefox > correctly lists the helix plugin. In addition, > /etc/libmap.conf contains the following: > > # Helix RealPlayer with > Mozilla/Firebird/Galeon/Epiphany/Konqueror > [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so] > libstdc++.so.5 libstdc++.so.5 > libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/realplayer.so > I've just experienced much the same problem in FBSD 5.4 Eventually I discovered: /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/pkg-message which I assume should have been displayed during installation but which I didn't see. Apparently you need to copy or add /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD{whatever} to /etc/libmap.conf It worked for me, with mozilla but the doculantation with the version of linuxpluginwrapper that I have installed saya there is some further (unsolved) difficulty with firefox. Malcolm Kay > System uname: > FreeBSD stargate 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #17: Tue Oct > 18 22:42:58 AKDT 2005 > root@stargate:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STARGATE i386 > > Also, flash6 is installed and works. All paths are correct, so > I don't quite know what to check next. I did try the same > plugin in linux-firefox and it works as expected. However, I > would like to stay with the native firefox. Does anyone have a > suggestion? > > Beech > > -------------------------------------------------------------- >------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator > - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind > Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th > Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK > 99501 > / \ > -------------------------------------------------------------- >-------------------------