From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 17:57:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9984F16A427 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 17:57:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A24B43D69 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 17:57:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 30285 invoked from network); 2 May 2006 03:57:17 +1000 Received: from 124-168-20-210.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (124.168.20.210) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 May 2006 03:57:17 +1000 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 03:57:14 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: John Nielsen Message-ID: <20060502035714.2b2f5f56@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200605011044.42837.john@jnielsen.net> References: <445035D0.8060902@averageadmins.com> <20060427111324.1a3f67f6@apircalabu.dsd.ro> <20060501151837.643b3929@localhost> <200605011044.42837.john@jnielsen.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [SOLUTION] Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 17:57:20 -0000 On Mon, 1 May 2006 10:44:42 -0400 John Nielsen wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2006 01:18, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > Jeff, please let me know how you go with this - I've tried this several > > times (all steps,including patchign for _dlsym) with no luck... maybe I > > missed something every time :-|... I'm thinking of using linux-firefox > > which , apparently, from a post to this list, supports the binary plugin > > from macromedia. > > Jumping in late here. I have Flash 7 working with Firefox on 6.1-RC. Here's > everything I remember doing: > > 1) I apply the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff patch after every time I update my > sources and before I build / install world. I don't remember where I got it > but it should be in the mailing list archives. It should be sufficient to > rebuild and reinstall just rtld. > > 2) I have these packages installed: > linux-flashplugin-7.0r63 > linux_base-8-8.0_14 > linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_2 > > 3) I have this in /etc/libmap.conf > # [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla > [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] > libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 > libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash7.so > libz.so.1 libz.so.3 > libm.so.6 libm.so.4 > libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so > > I also have all of the Flash6 lines commented out. I don't know if that's > necessary or not. > > 4) flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ > are symlinks to the real files in /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/. Thanks John, the steps you described got everything working as it should. I actually rebooted after step 1), not 100% sure if it's relevant or not. working quite well, youtube works, but it still hangs on video.google.com... oh well, cheers, Beto