On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:31:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:13:54 +0200 > > From: Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:42:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > ... > > > > i see that for 8.x you suggest using fc10, which is also something i > > > > tried on RELENG_7 but had similar symptoms. Is there any known reason > > > > why HEAD and RELENG_7 should be different in terms of linux_base > > > > support ? > > > > > > Here is what is working for me for both Flash9 and Skype: > > > linux_base-f8-8_11 > > > nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_2 > > > skype-2.0.0.72,1 > > > linux-flashplugin-9.0r159: > > > > > > Be sure that your various linux packages are updated to the -f8- > > > versions, too. The upgrade for linux_base is the tricky one. > > > > Unfortunately I think there are many more details that one has > > to consider, such as CPU type and number of cores/threads, > > OS version, and presumably firefox version as well. > > Can you tell me more on the above ? > > > > I had flash9 working once, but it don't remember all the packages > > (and something was stale for sure); it got broken while installing > > skype (a mail thread mentioned an issue with some shared lib version, > > which was exactly the problem i had with skype. The fix was to > > either create a symlink on a library or install linux_base-f10 to fix it). > > > > An example of the URLs that is giving me problems is the following > > > > http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/massa-colpito-da-un-detrito/35446?video > > > > (basically all videos from that site cause the same problem). I would be > > grateful if you cold check it. > > This all runs on my uni-processor ThinkPad 43 with 2GHz Pentium-M. I am > running week old RELENG_7, but it has been working since 7.0 days. not > knowing Italian, all I can say is that it shows a view of the front of a > race car, perhaps an F1 Ferrari, but I'm not too sure. In any case, it > plays fine for me.
ok thanks a lot for the info and also for the dependency list below. I'll check on a UP machine (my laptop) to see if i can have it back working there, and from there see how it goes on the desktop (which are AMD dual code, running freebsd-i386) cheers luigi _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
