Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-19 Thread Roman Divacky
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:02:47PM -0700, Zephiris wrote: > Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > > > I too am confused, if you have flash 9 working in firefox on RELENG_7 > > please give us a detailed how to there are just a TON of people > > looking for this. I have 5 systems I would test it out on right n

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-18 Thread Juergen Lock
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:51:44PM +0200, I wrote: > > There was a report on -current a while ago that a preliminary patch > > to fix the non-threadsafeness of mmap(2) MAP_FIXED also makes flash9 work, > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/075968.html > > a fi

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-18 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On 10/18/07, Roman Divacky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There was a report on -current a while ago that a preliminary patch > > > to fix the non-threadsafeness of mmap(2) MAP_FIXED also makes flash9 work, > > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/075968.htm

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-18 Thread Roman Divacky
> > There was a report on -current a while ago that a preliminary patch > > to fix the non-threadsafeness of mmap(2) MAP_FIXED also makes flash9 work, > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/075968.html I wrote that and I was wrong... it doesnt seem to fix the f

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-18 Thread Juergen Lock
[adding -emulation to Cc, just in case...] On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:40:55PM +0200, I wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Quoting John Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:10:11 -0700): > > > >> > >> [ On Monday, October 8, Scot Hetzel wrote: ] > >> > The port is no

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-10 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Quoting John Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:10:11 -0700): > >> >> [ On Monday, October 8, Scot Hetzel wrote: ] >> > The port is not broken as the flash9 port is not compiled, it just >> > installs the linux flash9 binary. What is broken

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-08 Thread Oliver Herold
Rather easy nspluginwrapper + Flash9 plugin in Firefox on Current and 6.2 stable. It's to some *extent* usable, but will segfault (only nspluginwrapper) while playing videos. Cheers, Oliver On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:15:31PM +0200, Willy Picard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:46:30PM +0100, R

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-08 Thread Willy Picard
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:46:30PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:52:18 -0500 > "Scot Hetzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/8/07, Willy Picard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The thing that shocked me is the fact that the port is still in the ports > > > tree even if it does

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-08 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting John Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:10:11 -0700): > > [ On Monday, October 8, Scot Hetzel wrote: ] > > The port is not broken as the flash9 port is not compiled, it just > > installs the linux flash9 binary. What is broken is the linux > > emulation on FreeBSD < 7. Work

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-08 Thread RW
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:52:18 -0500 "Scot Hetzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/8/07, Willy Picard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The thing that shocked me is the fact that the port is still in the > > ports tree > > even if it does not work! (It compiles but each try to view a Flash > > anima

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-08 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Monday, October 8, Scot Hetzel wrote: ] > The port is not broken as the flash9 port is not compiled, it just > installs the linux flash9 binary. What is broken is the linux > emulation on FreeBSD < 7. Work is underway to improve the linux > emulation in -CURRENT. > > I agree the port should

Re: The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-08 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 10/8/07, Willy Picard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I write this email to give my humble opinion on the scandalous status of the > linux-flashplugin9. This port is in the port tree for now 8 monthes (first > commit on the 17th of January 2007) and one should admit that it never > worked.

The scandalous status of linux-flashplugin9

2007-10-08 Thread Willy Picard
Hi, I write this email to give my humble opinion on the scandalous status of the linux-flashplugin9. This port is in the port tree for now 8 monthes (first commit on the 17th of January 2007) and one should admit that it never worked. A numerous set of mails has already been sent on this mailing l