Firstly, I apologise for the blatant help me nature of this question but time is really against me and I wondered if any experienced Linux/Wine users would be able to give me some basic pointers from their own experiences. I have built 2 very budget PCs for my kids (8+5) running Ubuntu 10.04 x32. Both have good Nvidia graphics and can play HD video. In fact everything is tip top apart from Web browsing - which is a very important requirement considering the wealth of educational stuff on the net nowadays. Problem is that most of these edu sites use: - Flash (works on Linux) or... - Shockwave (doesn?t work on Linux) or - 3dVia (doesn?t work on Linux) So I tried Wine 1.3.21. Firefox for Windows (both 3.6.17 and 4) run fine (I installed with and without Winetricks) and so does installing shockwave flash (10.3.181.26), but then as soon as a shockwave site is loaded...bang! The Firefox screen turns monochrome and it crashes. Investigations (google...google...google...) have led me to I assume that I cannot have my kids using Linux (or Wine), and give them the full modern web experience? Is my assumption correct? Maybe there?s another browser that integrates the plugins better? There?s no way I?m using Windows... Tks in advance anyone, even if the answer is ?you?re right m8...give up?. T
On 06/21/2011 04:08 AM, TiberiusT wrote:> - Shockwave (doesn?t work on Linux) or > - 3dVia (doesn?t work on Linux)Could you please send a link to a site that uses each of these as a reference point for testing?
@tparker Here's a 3dvia required page: http://www.nickjr.com/kids-games/backyardigans-racing-adventure.html ...don't get addicted :) and the shockwave one is a BBC spelling game, but I can't recall the exact page, I'll forward it when I get home later (abt 5 hours) NB I haven't tried 3dvia (mostly games) yet on Wine since no shockwave (proper edu) is a dealbreaker on its own. Tks T
dimesio, tparker, tks very much indeed. I got it working by running the downloaded Firefox 3.5.exe from the oldapps link. I then downloaded Shockwave and Flash thru Winetricks and ran them manually. I have two PCs I'm doing this on. On the Core2Duo 2.00Ghz with an 8500GT it works fine...I say fine bcos Firefox does crash occassionally (only while running flash). It seems random so far. There's also the occassional blank space on the screen, but it is definitely very useable. However the other PC is a venerable P4 at 3.2Ghz, 1MB mem, with an 8400GS and Flash barely runs. CPU gets hammered at a continuous 80pct ish and there's large black gaps in the rendering and chunks missing out of the screen. It's not really useable. I've tried other Firefox versions and older Flash versions but the problem is identical... Both PCs use Nvidia's official drivers and both play H264 1080p level 4x at a stroll using VDPAU. Should I be messing around with videocard settings to try and sort the Flash problem? Or is it just Wine/FFox/Flash doing something mighty intensive on the CPU? Tks T