Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:35:21 -0500 From: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+k@aldan.algebra.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: flash9 checklist Message-ID: <4911AF29.6070707@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <49086F1A.2090500@comcast.net> References: <200810280859.24048@aldan> <20081028181731.GA30591@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <49086F1A.2090500@comcast.net>
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Steve Polyack wrote: > Juergen Lock wrote: >> >> Preliminary checklist for getting flash9 to work in native firefox: >> (flash10 needs more ports work, I shall post about that seperately on >> -emulation...) If you have additions to this please post a followup to >> this thread, keeping the Cc: (I'm not on -questions...) >> >> 1. You need RELENG_7 from at least Mon Oct 20 11:15:57 2008 UTC >> (the relevant MFC commits are: >> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=183819 >> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=184075 >> - a recent HEAD should also work of course.) There are linprocfs >> patches >> for RELENG_6 too (merging the former commit), but the latter commit >> can't >> be merged to 6 (and 7.0) since they lack the cpuset bits, so flash9 >> probably won't work on SMP there. (Although if you have SMP you >> probably >> should be running 7 anyway. :) Oh and if you do have SMP you also >> need to >> use the ULE scheduler, the cpuset syscalls are not supported with 4BSD. >> linprocfs patches for 6: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.3.patch >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.4.patch >> >> 2. Your portstree needs to be from at least Sun Oct 19 17:37:28 2008 UTC >> (the last www/linux-flashplugin9 commit is: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2008-October/158404.html >> >> ) >> >> 3. Make sure linprocfs is mounted to /compat/linux/proc . >> >> 4. Make sure www/nspluginwrapper, www/linux-flashplugin9 and >> dependencies >> are installed and up to date(!). (the default emulators/linux_base-fc4 >> should work, if you want to use a later one don't forget to set >> compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 in sysctl.conf and >> OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT >> to whichever version you use in make.conf. Note however that on 6, only >> the default compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2 really works.) >> >> 5. If the plugin doesnt show up in firefox' about:plugins, run >> nspluginwrapper -i >> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so >> and restart firefox. >> >> 6. And remember there's a security advisory for the current version of >> flash9, >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/78f456fd-9c87-11dd-a55e-00163e000016.html >> >> (if you use portaudit you need to `make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES ...' >> to be able to install the port), and fc4 seems to be eol'd too, so you >> probably want to install something like the noscript firefox extension, >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 >> and only allow plugins (and scripts, tho thats a different problem) on >> sites you trust... >> >> And finally, if you still get crashes after following the above even >> on pages that are reported to work now (like youtube) you probably want >> to run `ktrace -di firefox...' and look at the output using linux_kdump >> (thats the devel/linux_kdump port, you want to use a package), paying >> specific attention to the lines above `PSIG SIGSEGV' (or whichever >> signal you got), maybe there are still shlibs missing that the plugin >> needs (NAMI ...something.so...), and if this is the case tell us about >> it so the appropriate dependencies can be added to the relevant ports. >> If you can't figure it out I guess it doesn't hurt to post the last >> few 100 lines of the dump up to the relevant PSIG on -emulation... >> >> You may also want to check linked shlibs like this: >> /compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd >> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so >> and >> /compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd >> /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin >> (if you see `not found' in there you know something is wrong) - although >> that doesn't show libs that may be dlopen()d at runtime. >> >> > Thanks for this. I was able to get linux-flashplugin9 working in > native Firefox 3.0.3 on FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386. The only additional > thing I had to do was copy > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so into > ~/.mozilla/plugins/ for Firefox to recognize the plugin. After that > Youtube, google video, and google maps (incl. street view) work fine, > but slow. A friend of mine with a very similar setup was not so lucky > and still has problems with flash9 locking up FF. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > So I've done some more testing of this with various linux_base-* installs. Youtube and most things (google maps) work with sound just fine for a few seconds, but after trying to interact or letting them go for a few minute they begin to rapidly eat up main memory. npviewer.bin's usage will top out somewhere around 300-450MB before it core dumps: pid 77684 (npviewer.bin), uid 1042: exited on signal 11 (core dumped). This is on FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386 (as of Tue Oct 28) with native Firefox 3.0.3 still.
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