Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:17:36 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Greg Mars <authentec@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Rudy <crapsh@monkeybrains.net> Subject: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working! Message-ID: <47804850.3020404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47801D54.8050709@gmail.com> References: <64c038660801040516u5c42a6cpadb475ad67fb4730@mail.gmail.com> <20080104174955.52aa33fd@gumby.homeunix.com> <64c038660801041029t1a9662bayed3ca02fd46c7ece@mail.gmail.com> <64c038660801041226k1d350bc6p727e4666ea295727@mail.gmail.com> <477FFE14.1010704@monkeybrains.net> <477FFF63.50004@gmail.com> <47801D54.8050709@gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Mars wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Rudy wrote: > >>>> With all this talk about FLASH, I found something out by >>>> trial and error and want to post again to the list so that >>>> others searching can get the FLASH player working in their >>>> brower: >>>> >>>> THIS STEP IS NEEDED OR FLASH WILL NOT WORK: >>>> >>>> sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.20 >>>> > > I am using 8-current (amd64) and found all I needed to do was > install www/linux-flashplugin7 then do a nspluginwrapper -v -a -i > and flash works fine (as far I can tell)... does this add any > functionality I am not aware of? (namely some sites seem to > partially load like the graphs at whos.among.us [the easiest way to > test this is go to the site in my signature then click on the 3rd > icon at the bottom and then click on graphs]) > >>>> Better yet, add this to your /etc/sysctl.conf file and >>>> reboot: compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.20 >>>> >>>> NOTE: I just picked 2.6.20 kinda at random... seems like that >>>> is the linux kernel number (which I know nothing about) for >>>> the Fedora 7 release. Oh, and I installed Fedora 7 instead >>>> of the default Fedora Core 4 on my desktop. >>>> >>>> Why does the linux emulation pick 2.4.2 as the kernel version >>>> number to report (by default) and not 2.6.11 (their kernel >>>> version shipped with Fedora 4)? Seems like the ports should >>>> and linux module should be updated... >>>> >>>> Rudy _______________________________________________ >>>> 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" >>>> >>>> > > >> _______________________________________________ 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" > Thank You! > I tried getting flash to work in FreeBSD so many times and failed. > It wasn't a big deal but it was annoying to have to boot into > another system if there is content I needed to see that happens to > be flash. > I'm running FreeBSD 7 Beta4. > I just did what you said: cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7 make > config-recursive install clean nspluginwrapper -v -a -i > After that a flash content was playing in firefox. Unfortunately my > AudigyLS soundcard only works with oss, which is having some > problems now, so I was not able to verify that sound works well. I don't use OSS so have no idea on the issue there. > By the way, I had some problems installing flash7 from ports a few > days ago. It didn't like the size of the file and would fail even > if you downloaded from Adobe and copied to ports/disfiles. I later > did a 'portsnap fetch update' that must have gotten updated > makefiles and fixed that problems. Anybody else with that issue > should try updating the ports collection. The problem a few days ago was because the distfiles had been updated.... one way to fix this (which is what I did) is do a "make makesum" which will recalculate the checksums found in the distinfo file. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgEhQjRvRjGmHRgQRAgRmAJ419cS9s5zgldXbErZBu5Kwp64VrACfV5Ei wz9rqqj5RsTblwVjz1bkCAE= =zvih -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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