flash9 checklist

Mario Lobo mlobo at digiart.art.br
Mon Nov 3 16:38:56 PST 2008


On Thursday 30 October 2008 19:53:33 Juergen Lock wrote:
> In article <49086F1A.2090500 at comcast.net> you write:
> >Juergen Lock wrote:
> >> Preliminary checklist for getting flash9 to work in native firefox:
> >> (flash10 needs more ports work, I shall post about that seperately on
> >> -emulation...)  If you have additions to this please post a followup to
> >> this thread, keeping the Cc: (I'm not on -questions...)
> >>
> >> 1. You need RELENG_7 from at least Mon Oct 20 11:15:57 2008 UTC
> >> (the relevant MFC commits are:
> >> 	http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=183819
> >> 	http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=184075
> >> - a recent HEAD should also work of course.)  There are linprocfs
> >> patches for RELENG_6 too (merging the former commit), but the latter
> >> commit can't be merged to 6 (and 7.0) since they lack the cpuset bits,
> >> so flash9 probably won't work on SMP there.  (Although if you have SMP
> >> you probably should be running 7 anyway. :)  Oh and if you do have SMP
> >> you also need to use the ULE scheduler, the cpuset syscalls are not
> >> supported with 4BSD. linprocfs patches for 6:
> >> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.3.patch
> >> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.4.patch
> >>
> >> 2. Your portstree needs to be from at least Sun Oct 19 17:37:28 2008 UTC
> >> (the last www/linux-flashplugin9 commit is:
> >> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2008-October/158404.html
> >> )
> >>
> >> 3. Make sure linprocfs is mounted to /compat/linux/proc .
> >>
> >> 4. Make sure www/nspluginwrapper, www/linux-flashplugin9 and
> >> dependencies are installed and up to date(!).  (the default
> >> emulators/linux_base-fc4 should work, if you want to use a later one
> >> don't forget to set compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 in sysctl.conf and
> >> OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT to whichever version you use in make.conf. 
> >> Note however that on 6, only the default compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2
> >> really works.)
> >>
> >> 5. If the plugin doesnt show up in firefox' about:plugins, run
> >> 	nspluginwrapper -i
> >> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so and restart
> >> firefox.
> >>
> >> 6. And remember there's a security advisory for the current version of
> >> flash9,
> >> 	http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/78f456fd-9c87-11dd-a55e-00163e00
> >>0016.html (if you use portaudit you need to `make
> >> -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES ...' to be able to install the port), and fc4
> >> seems to be eol'd too, so you probably want to install something like
> >> the noscript firefox extension,
> >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
> >> and only allow plugins (and scripts, tho thats a different problem) on
> >> sites you trust...
> >>
> >>  And finally, if you still get crashes after following the above even
> >> on pages that are reported to work now (like youtube) you probably want
> >> to run `ktrace -di firefox...' and look at the output using linux_kdump
> >> (thats the devel/linux_kdump port, you want to use a package), paying
> >> specific attention to the lines above `PSIG SIGSEGV' (or whichever
> >> signal you got), maybe there are still shlibs missing that the plugin
> >> needs (NAMI ...something.so...), and if this is the case tell us about
> >> it so the appropriate dependencies can be added to the relevant ports.
> >> If you can't figure it out I guess it doesn't hurt to post the last
> >> few 100 lines of the dump up to the relevant PSIG on -emulation...
> >>
> >>  You may also want to check linked shlibs like this:
> >> 	/compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd
> >> /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so and
> >> 	/compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd
> >> /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin (if you see `not
> >> found' in there you know something is wrong) - although that doesn't
> >> show libs that may be dlopen()d at runtime.
> >
> >Thanks for this.  I was able to get linux-flashplugin9 working in native
> >Firefox 3.0.3 on FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386.  The only additional thing I had
> >to do was copy
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so into
> >~/.mozilla/plugins/ for Firefox to recognize the plugin.
>
> Yeah I forgot to note that you want to run nspluginwrapper -i
> as the user that will run the native browser, not as root, then the
> wrapper will go into ~/.mozilla/plugins/...
>
> >  After that
> >Youtube, google video, and google maps (incl. street view) work fine,
> >but slow.  A friend of mine with a very similar setup was not so lucky
> >and still has problems with flash9 locking up FF.
>
>  Hmm, lockups I haven't seen yet here.
>
>  HTH,
> 	Juergen
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It works almost perfectly for me ! Thanks for this, Juergen !.

I had to say "almost perfectly" because in myspace, for instance, it takes a 
while for the "flashies" to start. One thing I noticed is that if I terminate 
FF, npviewer.bin remains loaded and I have to kill it.

Here is what I've got:

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz (3199.66-MHz 686-class CPU)
real memory  = 2146304000 (2046 MB)
nvidia0: <GeForce 7100 GS> on vgapci0
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #3: Wed Oct 29 18:37:07 BRT 2008 (i386)

kern.ipc.shmmax: 33554432  -> 1036870912
kern.ipc.shmall: 8192  -> 261072
compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2  -> 2.6.16

firefox-3.0.3,1 AND 2.0.0.17 (both work!)
linux_base-fc-4_10
nspluginwrapper-1.0.0
linux-flashplugin-9.0r124_2

The mtv site worked fine all the way !! Great oldie stuff !

-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE)


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