Flash problem

[Christopher Sean Hilton]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 06:47:05PM -0500, eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
> Quoting Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>:
> 
> >On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:18:34 -0500, Christopher Sean Hilton  
> ><chris at vindaloo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:57:28AM -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> >>>On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:42 -0400, andy at neu.net wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Nothing shows up under plugins in Mozilla or Seamonkey.  I tried to
> >>>> install the linuxplginwrapper,
> >>>
> >>>  Well you can't run linux flash in FreeBSD native browser without it.
> >>>  Also to run flash 7 you need to patch rtld-elf, adds a missing call.
> >>>  The linuxpluginwrapper port explains how to do this.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> but it is marked broken.rtld-elf
> >>>>
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm going through the same thing. If anyone has gotten this on solved
> >>I'd love to know. Several of the websites that I use have flash and
> >>will not work without it.
> >>
> >>I have tried:
> >>
> >>     CVSuping my ports tree and building the latest firefox
> >>
> >>     Updating linuxpluginwrapper
> >>
> >>     Changing from www/linux-flashplugin6 to www/linuxflashplugin7
> >>
> >>     Applying the rtld-elf patch.
> >>
> >>     Using linux-firefox rather than the FreeBSD native one.
> >>
> >>The result is always the same. Hit www.doonesbury.com and your browser
> >>packs it in.
> >
> >Works fine with linux-opera and linuxflashplugin7.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Mezz
> 
> Works great on SeaMonkey with FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #143: Sun Jun 11 
> 10:05:45 CDT 2006 at least.  I have navigated most of doonesbury with 
> no issues at all.
> 

Perhaps its something in the OS. I'm running:

     $ uname -a
     FreeBSD dagobah.vindaloo.com 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
     6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Feb 17 18:42:11 EST 2006 

I'll upgrade it to 6.1-STABLE and retest.

-- Chris

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Chris Hilton                                   chris-at-vindaloo-dot-com
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