On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:12:36 -0600 Chris Bennett
<[email protected]> wrote:
> latest current and packages as of yesterday
>
thanks. you're more up to date than I am. ;)
> mplayer-20090708p4
> mplayerplug-in-3.55p2
> gnash-0.8.3p3
> gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8
>
Hmmm... why both plugins?
Can you see both plugins from within firefox?
Tools->AddOns->Plugins
or
Edit->Preferences->Main->Manage Addons->Plugins
Possibly the two plugins are conflicting?
> Also using Youtube without Flash Auto which works through
> Greasemonkey.
>
Have you tried disabling greasemonkey?
> I am getting this error also through sites not using Flash.
>
Do you have other "addons" or "userscripts" installed to handle video
sites such as "DownloadHelper" or similar?
> Only error message in browser is (no video)
>
> I am getting those error messages by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 and watching
> that stream of errors
> I do not know how to capture that stream
You're obviously doing the pointy/clicky/icony/menuy thingy in a
big (bloated) "desktop" like kde or gnome. You should upgrade to cwm (in
xbase) or scrotwm. ;)
There are tons of ways to get the output. On a typical terminal, you
have three streams, and each is assigned to a file descriptor.
Standard Input (STDIN) 0
Standard Output (STDOUT) 1
Standard Error (STDERR) 2
What you're seeing on the first virtual terminal (CTRL-ALT-F1) is the
output written to the "Standard Error" file descriptor.
The most simple way to see the output of STDERR is to start an xterm,
and then start firefox from it.
$ firefox35 -ProfileManager
$ firefox35 -P <profile name>
The above will give you the stderr messages for just firefox because
normally STDERR is redirected to STDOUT in an xterm.
A more complex and complete way (assuming you're not using xdm), is to
edit your /etc/syslog.conf and uncomment the entry for /dev/console
Then manually start X with redirection:
$ startx > /dev/console 2>&1
In the above, you're redirecting the output of startx to /dev/console
but you're also redirecting STDERR (2) to STDOUT (1) so it all gets to
the /dev/console device.
You could also alias 'startx' to the above in your ~/.kshrc
Then once you're in X,
$ xconsole -daemon
Or better, put the above in your ~/.xinitrc so you always have it.
An alternative to using xconsole(1) is using `xterm -C` for basically
the same thing.
This will give you all the error messages from all the applications you
start in X through the pointy/clicky/icony/menuy thingy that you call a
desktop.
If you do this, then you will not believe the number of error messages
that you've been missing from all your applications.
Off the top of my head, I can't remember if the default /etc/fbtab
takes care of the changing the ownership of /dev/console device at
login, but I think it does. Either way, it's worth checking.
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