On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:16 AM, ben paley <ben.pyttipa...@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- _______________________________________________ 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"
