Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:39:04 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to enable linux flash player [9] in firefox Message-ID: <45BBC678.7000702@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45BBC3D5.9060504@u.washington.edu> References: <20070126073329.BC30B16A40F@hub.freebsd.org> <200701271128.21056.odilist@sonic.net> <45BBC3D5.9060504@u.washington.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Oliver Iberien wrote: >> On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:33, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org >> wrote: >>> Message: 2 >>> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:41:37 +0100 >>> From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> >>> Subject: how to enable linux flash player in firefox >>> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> >>> Message-ID: <45B907F1.5060402@locolomo.org> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>> >>> Hi there: >>> >>> I see the new flash9 for linux has been included in ports, so I >>> installed it - but how do I enable the plugin in Firefox? Does it work >>> or does it crash? >>> >>> Thanks, Erik >>> -- >>> Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org >> I've tried installing this, too. The included readme addresses linux, and >> there is no indication of what is supposed to be done with libmap.conf, which >> leaves me in the dark. Has anyone figured this out? > >> Thanks, > >> Oliver > > I grabbed the symbols table for the flash player, but unfortunately I'm > clueless as to determining what the hell the original > linuxplugin-wrapper dev had in mind, so I can't really move on further > than that. I can provide my info though so someone who does have an idea > can proceed on, if necessary. > > If you use any sound requiring flash modules, Flash player will make > Firefox ( / Seamonkey?) segfault and core dump; this is true for > linux-firefox with (at least) only the default config. This is because > (like some have mentioned before in previous threads) flash uses ALSA, > which is linux's answer to getting rid of OSS. See: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture>. > > With that aside, Flash 9 is incredibly unstable with linux emulation. > Flash 9 under Linux worked fine on Gentoo when I ran the beta > version--other than flash animations just being a bit slow. > > <rant> > It's a pain in the ass that Adobe / Macromedia had to invent a > technology that so many "web developers" sought, just because of its > ease of "developing"; if only the "developers" sought to learn CSS and a > bit of proper javascripting, then stuff would be easier for viewing on > all platforms. > > (a few choice four-/five-letter words combined with other words and > grumbling) > </rant> Here's the link to 2 of the text files that contain the libraries / function calls I found in the global symbols table for libflashplayer.so: <http://students.washington.edu/youshi10/posted/flash9/>. - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFu8Z4EnKyINQw/HARAgHfAJ4n9K3INpkIEW1NMlLqUnvROl9P5QCdFJTQ Ursg1bPrkWMEvDTCu16uoiU= =WGcH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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