Does linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.406 work under stable/10?

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 16:48:23 UTC 2014


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:14 AM, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>
wrote:

> Yesterday, I (mostly -- adapted to pkg) followed the process at the
> bottom of portmaster(8) to rebuild all of the installed ports on my
> laptop under stable/10 @r273626.
>
> There was some "turbulence" in the process, and I noted that after it
> comleted, despite having run "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" (yes, as me),
> the Flash player appears to be non-functional in firefox-33.0,1.
>
> I had been able to use it successfully as built under stable/9.
>
> I had migrated from the linux-f10 to the -c6 on 29 September; the laptop
> gets OS & ports updates daily.
>
> This morning, after updating the laptop to stable/10 @r273729 and
> updating installed ports as of r371545, I:
>
> * pkg delete -f linux\*
> * portmaster emulators/linux-c6
> * nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
>
> and it still appears to be non-functional.  (E.g., attempting to
> display a YouTube video leaves a static black rectangle instead of
> showing expected images and there is no sound.  Attempting to use
> <http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/> or <http://www.speedtest.net/>
> fails, as there is nothing selectable to start any of the tests.  "top"
> shows libflashplayer.so processes running, but they don't appear to be
> doing anything useful.)
>
> Is there something obvious that I'm missing here?
>
> Should I file a PR?  Is there additional information I should provide if
> I do?
>
> Thanks!
>
> [Reply-To set, as I'm not subscribed to emulation at .]
>
> Peace,
> david
> --
> David H. Wolfskill                              david at catwhisker.org
> Taliban: Evil cowards with guns afraid of truth from a 14-year old girl.
>

Doesn't Firefox 33 have H.264 support?  I thought YouTube used H.264 when
possible. Could this be triggering (or be related to) the problem?

FWIW. I have this same issue.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com


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