status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:31:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > 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.

ok thanks a lot for the info and also for the dependency list below.
I'll check on a UP machine (my laptop) to see if i can have it back
working there, and from there see how it goes on the desktop
(which are AMD dual code, running freebsd-i386)

cheers
luigi