status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:13:54 +0200
> From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it>
> 
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:42:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> ...
> > > i see that for 8.x you suggest using fc10, which is also something i
> > > tried on RELENG_7 but had similar symptoms. Is there any known reason
> > > why HEAD and RELENG_7 should be different in terms of linux_base support ?
> > 
> > Here is what is working for me for both Flash9 and Skype:
> > linux_base-f8-8_11
> > nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_2
> > skype-2.0.0.72,1
> > linux-flashplugin-9.0r159:
> > 
> > Be sure that your various linux packages are updated to the -f8-
> > versions, too. The upgrade for linux_base is the tricky one.
> 
> Unfortunately I think there are many more details that one has
> to consider, such as CPU type and number of cores/threads,
> OS version, and presumably firefox version as well.
> Can you tell me more on the above ?
> 
> I had flash9 working once, but it don't remember all the packages
> (and something was stale for sure); it got broken while installing
> skype (a mail thread mentioned an issue with some shared lib version,
> which was exactly the problem i had with skype. The fix was to
> either create a symlink on a library or install linux_base-f10 to fix it).
> 
> An example of the URLs that is giving me problems is the following
> 
> http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/massa-colpito-da-un-detrito/35446?video
> 
> (basically all videos from that site cause the same problem). I would be
> grateful if you cold check it.

This all runs on my uni-processor ThinkPad 43 with 2GHz Pentium-M. I am
running week old RELENG_7, but it has been working since 7.0 days. not
knowing Italian, all I can say is that it shows a view of the front of a
race car, perhaps an F1 Ferrari, but I'm not too sure. In any case, it
plays fine for me.

Here is a list of the dependencies of nspluginwrapper:
Dependency: xineramaproto-1.1.2
Dependency: xextproto-7.0.5
Dependency: renderproto-0.9.3
Dependency: randrproto-1.3.0
Dependency: kbproto-1.0.3
Dependency: inputproto-1.5.0
Dependency: fixesproto-4.0
Dependency: damageproto-1.1.0_2
Dependency: compositeproto-0.4
Dependency: font-util-1.0.1
Dependency: encodings-1.0.2,1
Dependency: expat-2.0.1
Dependency: ca_root_nss-3.11.9_2
Dependency: hicolor-icon-theme-0.10_2
Dependency: python26-2.6.2_1
Dependency: xcb-proto-1.5
Dependency: perl-threaded-5.8.9_3
Dependency: png-1.2.37
Dependency: jpeg-7
Dependency: tiff-3.8.2_4
Dependency: jasper-1.900.1_8
Dependency: curl-7.19.5_1
Dependency: linux_base-f8-8_11
Dependency: linux-f8-tiff-3.8.2_1
Dependency: linux-f8-png-1.2.22_1
Dependency: linux-f8-jpeg-6b_1
Dependency: linux-f8-expat-2.0.1_1
Dependency: linux-f8-fontconfig-2.4.2_1
Dependency: linux-f8-xorg-libs-7.3_3
Dependency: linux-f8-cairo-1.4.14_1
Dependency: linux-f8-pango-1.18.4_1
Dependency: pkg-config-0.23_1
Dependency: xproto-7.0.15
Dependency: pixman-0.15.4
Dependency: libtasn1-2.1
Dependency: libfontenc-1.0.4
Dependency: libXdmcp-1.0.2_1
Dependency: libXau-1.0.4
Dependency: libICE-1.0.4_1,1
Dependency: libSM-1.1.0_1,1
Dependency: freetype2-2.3.9_1
Dependency: mkfontscale-1.0.6
Dependency: mkfontdir-1.0.4
Dependency: fontconfig-2.6.0,1
Dependency: font-misc-meltho-1.0.0_1
Dependency: font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.0
Dependency: font-bh-ttf-1.0.0
Dependency: bitstream-vera-1.10_4
Dependency: xorg-fonts-truetype-7.4
Dependency: pcre-7.9
Dependency: libpthread-stubs-0.1
Dependency: libxcb-1.3
Dependency: xcb-util-0.3.5
Dependency: libX11-1.2.1_1,1
Dependency: libXt-1.0.5_1
Dependency: libXrender-0.9.4_1
Dependency: libXft-2.1.13
Dependency: libXfixes-4.0.3_1
Dependency: libXext-1.0.5,1
Dependency: libXrandr-1.3.0
Dependency: libXinerama-1.0.3,1
Dependency: libXi-1.2.1,1
Dependency: libXdamage-1.1.1
Dependency: libXcursor-1.1.9_1
Dependency: libXcomposite-0.4.0,1
Dependency: cairo-1.8.8,1
Dependency: libiconv-1.13.1
Dependency: libxml2-2.7.3
Dependency: gettext-0.17_1
Dependency: libgpg-error-1.7
Dependency: libgcrypt-1.4.4
Dependency: glib-2.20.4
Dependency: gamin-0.1.10_3
Dependency: gio-fam-backend-2.20.4
Dependency: shared-mime-info-0.60_1
Dependency: pango-1.24.4
Dependency: lzo2-2.03_2
Dependency: gnutls-2.6.5
Dependency: cups-client-1.3.10_2
Dependency: linux-f8-atk-1.20.0_1
Dependency: linux-f8-gtk2-2.12.8_1
Dependency: atk-1.26.0
Dependency: gtk-2.16.5

Linux-flashplugin9.0r159 only requires:
ependency: linux_base-f8-8_11
Dependency: linux-openssl-0.9.7f_2
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