From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 20:51:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E957316A41A for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:51:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from krinklyfig@speakeasy.net) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C319B13C459 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:51:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from krinklyfig@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 28483 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2008 20:24:44 -0000 Received: from 209-188-117-232.taosnet.com (HELO smogmonster.local) (krinklyfig@[209.188.117.232]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Jan 2008 20:24:44 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:24:41 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Message-ID: <20080116202441.GA40521@smogmonster.local> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <477FFF63.50004@gmail.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Rudy Subject: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: krinklyfig@speakeasy.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:51:25 -0000 On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:06:27PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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)... Hot damn, that worked. I now have Flash in native Firefox. I never really paid much attention to the commands for nspluginwrapper or knew they were necessary. I have also never really gotten Flash to work but didn't try very hard at it, either. Thanks. - jt 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 _______________________________________________