Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:08:06 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Flash 9 on stable Message-ID: <20081016230806.D825745010@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:25:37 CDT." <20081016142537.446d6dc1@mkproductions.org>
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--==_Exmh_1224198486_13914P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:25:37 -0500 > From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008, at 22:28:58 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > Patches have been committed to CURRENT and should have been MFC'ed > > last weekend, but haven't for some reason. > > > > The port has a PR waiting for maintainer feedback: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127839 > > > > The relevant thread on emulation@ is: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-September/005311.html > > (continues in October archives) > > Hi. > > I'm using RELENG_7 as of yesterday which appears to have the linprocfs > fixes from CURRENT, and I also updated linux-flashplayer9 with the > patch from the above PR. > > When trying to use Flash 9 in linux-opera a few Flash items work (such > as Adobe's test page which confirms it is using version 9 and sound > does work on the rollovers there), but most things including YouTube > videos or videos from other sites either do not play at all and lock up > immediately or play for a few seconds and then lock up: > > ---------------- > opera: Plug-in 90514 is not responding. It will be closed. > opera: Define environment variable OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN to keep > blocked plug-ins. > ---------------- > > Trying with linux-firefox and linux-firefox-devel gives similar > results except Firefox crashes entirely on most Flash sites. > > I was using linux_base-fc4 and 2.4.2 however I updated to linux_base-f8 > and 2.6.16 since I saw others in the above emulation@ thread having > success with f8. There doesn't seem to be any change with f8. > > Is this still the expected behavior? I'm not sure if these fixes were > supposed to fix everything related to Flash 9 or if there are still > things to be done, so I'm just giving it a try and posting the results. > I am running amd64 by the way. > > Thanks very much in advance, > > -Mark > FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #14: Thu Oct 16 00:12:09 CDT 2008 amd64 I see that Flash 10 is out for Linux: <http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3225467354.html>. Even if this gets Flash 9 working to some degree, we're still out of date. :-( We need to run as fast as we can just to stay where we are. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1224198486_13914P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFI98lWkn3rs5h7N1ERAvrlAJ9H3D/Fzm/7kXQItFKEx92dJDAv+ACgrRNq fpurydfI++4MSDzV5Qf5gfQ= =Zecq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1224198486_13914P--
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