> Subject: RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer
> acceptable. Bounty established...)
>
>
> Sean Cavanaugh writes:
>
> > AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the
> > ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a new
Sean Cavanaugh writes:
> AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the
> ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a news article iI
> came across they were actually hiring a whole new department
> whose sole purpose was to add more of the older cards to the open
> sorce
Hi,
> The sake of completeness, I think it's worth mentionning that when
> using
> nspluginwrapper, it is theorically possible to run the Flash plugin
> (and
> other ones too) inside QEMU.
This is possible but slow and I used a very old version of QEMU. IIRC, the
OpenSUSE wiki mentions how to do
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:03:08AM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote:
> I've found wine + firefox + flash to work for everything I've tried so
> far (youtube, various websites with flash ads, one or two flash-only
> sites.) It did crash on me once, but I'm not sure it was related to
> flash. Wine is
Mike Meyer writes:
> [...]
> I'm not sure those are the drivers Theierry wants. The proprietary
> driver was called fglrx, not "radeon" or "radeonhd". Those two drivers
> have been in the X open source trees for quite a while now. I first
> started using the radeon driver on amd64 in late 2006
> fglrx is the only way that anyone's going to get true 3D OpenGL> support, and
> the last time I checked that wasn't available except for> ancient cards on
> FreeBSD.> > AMD was supposed to be helping ATI, but it appears that after
> the> merger all that's happened is a website change and ATI's
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:21:53PM +0100, RW wrote:
> > Btw there is a small nasty problem copy/paste from wine app to native
> > apps does not work. Ideas how to workaround this?
>
> It's only the traditional X, select and middle-click, that
> doesn't work in my experience
>
> The windows-styl
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:52:30 +0300
Stefan Lambrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried this before and have a bad luck of not having working audio
> on flash, but today with new wine and FF3 it works.
>
> Btw there is a small nasty problem copy/paste from wine app to native
> apps does not work.
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
> > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under Free
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
>> > drivers
Le Wednesday 25 June 2008, Ben Kaduk a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
> > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ?
>
> Well, I'm using
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
> drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under FreeBSD-AMD64 ?
>
Well, I'm using radeonhd right now on a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/s
Greetings,
Mark Carlson wrote:
On 6/24/08, Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Julian Stacey wrote:
Do you have a "How To" RTFM Cook book / script URL please ?
I'd like to chime in here and say there is nothing special to get this
configuration to work. Download the Wind
,--- You/Mark (Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:41:07 -0600) *
| I'm not at my box right now, but it went something like this:
| ...
| I might write up some better instructions when I have the time, but
| I really don't have a good place to put them.
`---*
Th
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:40:44PM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote:
> 0. Install wine ( emulators/wine )
> 1. Download firefox for windows (
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html )
> 2. Run: wine "Firefox Setup 3.0.exe"
> 3. Complete the installer
> 4. To run firefox you need to do something li
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Le Tuesday 24 June 2008, Garrett Cooper a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Scott T. Hildreth
>
[SNIP]
>
> (not designed to be troll-bait, just my personal opinion on the matter
> -- don't comment on it please) FWIW, Personally I don't think that
> Flash support is as critica
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:36:42 -0400
Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Julian Stacey wrote:
> > "Mark Carlson" wrote:
> >> On 6/19/08, John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > . Elided ...
> >>> [1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary
> >>> Compat anyway...
> >>
On 6/24/08, Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Julian Stacey wrote:
> > Do you have a "How To" RTFM Cook book / script URL please ?
> >
>
> I'd like to chime in here and say there is nothing special to get this
> configuration to work. Download the Windows version of Firefox and install
>
Julian Stacey wrote:
"Mark Carlson" wrote:
On 6/19/08, John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
. Elided ...
[1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary
Compat anyway...
I've found wine + firefox + flash to work for everything I've tried so
Do you have a "How To" RTFM
"Mark Carlson" wrote:
> On 6/19/08, John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
. Elided ...
> > [1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary
> > Compat anyway...
>
> I've found wine + firefox + flash to work for everything I've tried so
Do you have a "How To" RTFM Cook book / s
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Scott T. Hildreth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:41 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> > > Quoting John Kozubik <[
On 6/19/08, John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Don't shoot the messenger:
>
>
> FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
> support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
>
>
> Running IE in Wine is not a solution.
>
> Running another OS in vmware to
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:41 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > Quoting John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
> > > 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
> > >
> > > > Fi
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > Quoting John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
> > 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
> >
> > > First, a bounty has been posted here:
> > >
> > > http://blog.kozubik.com/joh
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:39 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
> 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
>
> > First, a bounty has been posted here:
> >
> > http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
> >
>
Maybe the bou
Quoting Roman Divacky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 20 Jun 2008
10:04:16 +0200):
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:39:06AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
>First, a bounty has been posted here:
>
>http://blog.
Quoting John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
First, a bounty has been posted here:
http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
From the site:
---snip---
I will pay $200 to whoever can compose a working and stable recipe for
Believe it or not, there is useful content on the web in Flash :
>
> Google [Flash filetype:swf site:nasa.gov]
> (without the brackets).
There might be useful content, but that surely doesnt mean FreeBSD
itself as a desktop isnt usable, I think saying using firefox/flash for
flash based websites
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:39:06AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 19 Jun 2008
> 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT)):
>
> >First, a bounty has been posted here:
> >
> >http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2007/12/bounty-posted-f.html
> >
>
> From the si
On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Murray Stokely wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability
to
support Flash in a stable, well-
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
>> FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
>> support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
>
> Nonsense. This presumes anyt
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
> FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
> support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
Nonsense. This presumes anything "useful" has ever been written in
flash.
> Free flash alternatives and flash
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John Kozubik wrote:
|
| Don't shoot the messenger:
|
|
| FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
| support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
gnash-devel provides flash 9 and works pretty well...
|
|
| Runnin
Don't shoot the messenger:
FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to
support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
Running IE in Wine is not a solution.
Running another OS in vmware to simply browse the web is not a solution.
Free flash alternatives and fla
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