From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 26 03:41:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458F6106564A for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:41:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: from onelab2.iet.unipi.it (onelab2.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD308FC0C for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:41:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: by onelab2.iet.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 275) id BFB7873098; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:47:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:47:44 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Kevin Oberman Message-ID: <20090726034744.GA19060@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20090726031354.GA17719@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090726033127.02EFE1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090726033127.02EFE1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:41:30 -0000 On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:31:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:13:54 +0200 > > From: Luigi Rizzo > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:42:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > ... > > > > i see that for 8.x you suggest using fc10, which is also something i > > > > tried on RELENG_7 but had similar symptoms. Is there any known reason > > > > why HEAD and RELENG_7 should be different in terms of linux_base support ? > > > > > > Here is what is working for me for both Flash9 and Skype: > > > linux_base-f8-8_11 > > > nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_2 > > > skype-2.0.0.72,1 > > > linux-flashplugin-9.0r159: > > > > > > Be sure that your various linux packages are updated to the -f8- > > > versions, too. The upgrade for linux_base is the tricky one. > > > > Unfortunately I think there are many more details that one has > > to consider, such as CPU type and number of cores/threads, > > OS version, and presumably firefox version as well. > > Can you tell me more on the above ? > > > > I had flash9 working once, but it don't remember all the packages > > (and something was stale for sure); it got broken while installing > > skype (a mail thread mentioned an issue with some shared lib version, > > which was exactly the problem i had with skype. The fix was to > > either create a symlink on a library or install linux_base-f10 to fix it). > > > > An example of the URLs that is giving me problems is the following > > > > http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/massa-colpito-da-un-detrito/35446?video > > > > (basically all videos from that site cause the same problem). I would be > > grateful if you cold check it. > > This all runs on my uni-processor ThinkPad 43 with 2GHz Pentium-M. I am > running week old RELENG_7, but it has been working since 7.0 days. not > knowing Italian, all I can say is that it shows a view of the front of a > race car, perhaps an F1 Ferrari, but I'm not too sure. In any case, it > plays fine for me. ok thanks a lot for the info and also for the dependency list below. I'll check on a UP machine (my laptop) to see if i can have it back working there, and from there see how it goes on the desktop (which are AMD dual code, running freebsd-i386) cheers luigi