From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 22 20:06:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33FF516A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:06:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.glengroup.com (smtp.glengroup.com [66.216.65.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 743EB43D1F for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:06:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfrazier@glengroup.com) Received: (qmail 9532 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2004 18:56:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.1.26?) (216.107.208.145) by 10.0.2.77 with SMTP; 22 Dec 2004 18:56:34 -0000 Message-ID: <41C9CAFB.5090308@glengroup.com> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:28:59 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041221) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clint Olsen References: <20041222084249.GA76803@0lsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20041222084249.GA76803@0lsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: gnome@freebsd.org cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting flash working with Firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:06:31 -0000 Clint Olsen wrote: > I was on a website on Edmunds.com saying that I needed flash version 7 in > order for this chunk to work. So, I screwed around with the linux flash > plugin, but attempting to make this work (linking all the dependent > libraries required by the linux libflashplayer.so) in the plugins directory > resulted in a bus error. > > So, then I decided to try the firefox flash plugin. The Edumunds site > didn't seem to recognize this plugin since it still said I needed version > 7. > > The website: > > http://www.edmunds.com/il/comingsoon/index.html?tid=edmunds...globalheader..7.* > > 1) How do I make this work? Should I even be attempting to use the Linux > flash plugin? > > 2) Where is this documented? I didn't see anything in the port. I had to > cruise all over the web just to find out where to copy the linux flash > plugin etc in order to find out it doesn't work anyway. > there's a howto available at http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?t=157 that you might find helpful... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 603-356-3030 Ext. 331 Systems Administrator Glen Group WWW: http://www.glengroup.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.