Hello, I've been using FreeBSD since 3.4 but I've been away for a while. Now I've put 8.2 on an old laptop, and everything's lovely except power management (I'll get round to that eventually) and the Flash plug in. I've followed the steps at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html without any errors, except that neither Firefox nor any other browser will play flash movies. about:plugins doesn't show a flash plugin. I've spent a while googling and all I can find is variations on the instructions from the handbook. I don't know where to start looking for the problem. I'd be really grateful to whoever could point me in the right direction. Thanks a lot, Ben
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:16 AM, ben paley <ben.pyttipanna@spooty.net>wrote:> Hello, > > I've been using FreeBSD since 3.4 but I've been away for a while. Now I've > put 8.2 on an old laptop, and everything's lovely except power management > (I'll get round to that eventually) and the Flash plug in. > > I've followed the steps at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html without any > errors, except that neither Firefox nor any other browser will play flash > movies. about:plugins doesn't show a flash plugin. > > I've spent a while googling and all I can find is variations on the > instructions from the handbook. I don't know where to start looking for the > problem. > > I'd be really grateful to whoever could point me in the right direction. > >Did you try symlinking nsplugin.so to $HOME/.mozilla/plugins ? this is usually what I end up doing to make it work. I forget if 64bit flash was fixed or not, if it wasn't you may need nswrapper or the like to run the 32bit plugin binaries. hth/c-
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:16:26PM +0000, ben paley wrote:> Hello, > > I've been using FreeBSD since 3.4 but I've been away for a while. Now > I've put 8.2 on an old laptop, and everything's lovely except power > management (I'll get round to that eventually) and the Flash plug in. > > I've followed the steps at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html without any > errors, except that neither Firefox nor any other browser will play > flash movies. about:plugins doesn't show a flash plugin. > > I've spent a while googling and all I can find is variations on the > instructions from the handbook. I don't know where to start looking for > the problem. > > I'd be really grateful to whoever could point me in the right direction.What I usually do is install the freebsd native firefox through /usr/ports/www/firefox, and plug flash into it using: /usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 Further details about this can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html On that page search for "6.2.3 Firefox and Macromedia" I am currently using this on 8.2-prerelease, and have been using it this way for the passed year or so. It works great. The only caveat is that sometimes you have to "pkill npviewer". You'll know when to do that by seeing your browser become very sluggish. Doesn't happen as often as it did anymore. Marco -- Micro$oft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what?
[ Suggest not to cc: freebsd-stable@ from this point on; freebsd-ports@ is added ] ,--- You/ben (Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:16:26 +0000) ----* | I've followed the steps at | http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html without any | errors, except that neither Firefox nor any other browser will play | flash movies. about:plugins doesn't show a flash plugin. | I've spent a while googling and all I can find is variations on the | instructions from the handbook. I don't know where to start looking for | the problem. I play Flash in Firefox, (native) Opera and Chrome -- perfectly now. For Firefox, the instructions in the Handbook worked for me. | I'd be really grateful to whoever could point me in the right direction. Search freebsd-ports@ for "opera", "flash" and my name -- I was a part of a conversation about it, some three months ago. Running Opera with -debugplugin helps. -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:16 PM, ben paley <ben.pyttipanna@spooty.net> wrote:> Hello, > > I've been using FreeBSD since 3.4 but I've been away for a while. Now I've > put 8.2 on an old laptop, and everything's lovely except power management > (I'll get round to that eventually) and the Flash plug in. > > I've followed the steps at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html without any > errors, except that neither Firefox nor any other browser will play flash > movies. about:plugins doesn't show a flash plugin. > > I've spent a while googling and all I can find is variations on the > instructions from the handbook. I don't know where to start looking for the > problem. > > I'd be really grateful to whoever could point me in the right direction. > > Thanks a lot, > BenOne common mistake is running "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" as root.