Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:38:05 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ? Message-ID: <20090725073805.GA11455@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20090725013500.GC62402@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20090725013500.GC62402@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ? > Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to: > - remove all linux-* ports > - set the following in /etc/make.conf > OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 > OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 > - set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 > - set the following in /etc/fstab > linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 > - reinstall linux_base-f8-8_11 > - reinstall linux-flashplugin-10.0r22 (which in turn brings in the > relevant linux-f8-* ports) > > - also install nspluginwrapper and create a firefox plugin > - upgrade firefox to firefox-3.5,1 (native), just in case > - run firefox with "limit stacksize 4megabytes" (or variants) > as recommended to avoid npviewer growing/not dying > > This was done on 3 different machines (one laptop with a centrino, > 2 desktops with AMD X2 dual core running in i386 mode) with mixed > [in]success. On one machine thing started working well, but on the > other two they did not (the various packages were of course slightly > disaligned) and while trying to replicate the configuration i also > broke the good one without figuring out why. > Symptoms are that on certain sites or actions (e.g. switch to full > screen on youtube videos) i get firefox freezing like this > > 22381 luigi 13 96 0 82580K 57484K ucond 1 0:00 0.20% firefox-bin > 22413 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin > 22414 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin > > and recovering control (but no video) after 10+seconds > > I also get a lot of the following weak_unref warnings with various addresses > > (firefox-bin:22381): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x297ba9f0(0x2a10d110) > > (but not sure how related is this, because it happens even without a > flash plugin). > > I have also tried flash9 instead of flash10, o fc10 instead of fc8, > all with similar results. > > Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ? > The Handbook gives a reliable, i.e. reproductible one, recipe: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html 6.2.3 Firefox and MacromediaŽ Flash Plugin for running Flash 9 under 7.X and with default linux_base. I'm also working on an update for 8.X -- Marc
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