Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:44:29 -0400 From: Dave Grochowski <malus.x@gmail.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Port for nspluginwrapper Message-ID: <460EE44D.50805@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <460E7F26.1060901@freebsd.org> References: <BAY127-DAV16AC440DBB4BDAFA5772A0A3620@phx.gbl> <460E7F26.1060901@freebsd.org>
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Hey, Eric Anderson wrote: > On 03/30/07 21:01, Dave Grochowski wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I wrote a port for nspluginwrapper, which you can find at: >> >> http://elvis.rowan.edu/~grocho98/nspluginwrapper.tar.bz2 >> >> For those who do not know what it is, you can find the homepage at: >> >> http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/ >> >> Basically, it allows you to run Linux/i386 browser plugins on the >> native browsers of other architectures and operating systems. To use >> it, simply install the appropriate plugins you would like from ports >> (I tried it with www/linux-flashplugin9, but others should work just >> as well) and then install nspluginwrapper. As a regular user, run >> "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" to automagically find the plugins on you >> system and enable them for use in Firefox. Now, the plugins should >> work in your browser. I tried it with Flash 9 and both the graphics >> and sound worked. Unfortunately, Flash 9 is a bit buggy for me and >> crashed frequently, but I had the same issue when using the plugin >> with www/linux-firefox as well. >> >> I think the port is pretty complete, but I have only tried it on >> FreeBSD/i386 6-STABLE and FreeBSD/i386 7-CURRENT. It should work on >> amd64, but I don't have a machine to test it on. If the port is >> acceptable, I would not mind maintaining it, except for the fact that >> I obviously do not have a commit bit (though that probably is not a >> huge issue). >> >> Any comments would be greatly appreciated. > > Installs ok, but didn't seem to find any plugins, even with the > linux-flash9 installed. If I try to point it at the flash plugin > directly, it says something like: "not a valid nspluginwrapper plugin" > > > Eric > Try running "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i". I have a typo in the pkg-message. I'll reupload it later tonight. Sincerely, Dave Grochowski
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