From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 20:36:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632EE106566C for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 20:36:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@pollux.local.net) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (smtp4-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3C98FC08 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 20:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pollux.local.net (unknown [82.246.30.233]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6014C8070 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 22:36:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by pollux.local.net (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 1D94128428; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 22:36:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 22:36:30 +0200 From: Harald Weis To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101009203629.GA2135@pollux.local.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20101008180046.GA2867@pollux.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: VirtualBox OpenSolaris guest 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: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:36:39 -0000 On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 02:34:11PM -0400, Alex Goncharov wrote: > ,--- You/Harald (Fri, 8 Oct 2010 20:00:46 +0200) ----* > | My hope to find an interim solution for the flashplayer nightmare > | (while waiting for gnash) can be measured by the amount of hours > | I've spent to get flash - easily and long-term-wise - playing on FreeBSD, > | Ubuntu, PCBSD... > | > | I guess that FreeBSD will never be supported by Adobe. > > Flash works beautifully for me on FreeBSD 8.1 in both Firefox 3.6 (use > the instructions at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html) > and in Opera (linux and native.) Yes, I know that very well and used it with success many times. There is a message exchange on the questions mailing list - "concerning flash under freebsd" starting on last June 15 - which confirms my own experience of ugly things like npviewer.bin coredumps and browser freezing. I found the suggestion interesting to install VirtualBox and OpenSolaris which is an operating system supported by Adobe. That's the reason why I gave it a try. > Is your problem "flash" or "audio" (i.e. can you play an mp3 file with > mpg123, for example)? "flash" installs like a charm. It's audio. There is no audio whatsoever after a perfectly clean OpenSolaris guest installation. The guest cannot determine the correct audio driver for the underlying audio card. Needless to say that the audio card works for the FreeBSD host (still on 8.0 for the moment). -- Harald