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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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> 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
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