Flash plugin with opera or linux-opera on 7.0-Release

[Person, Roderick]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Oliver Fromme
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:07 AM
> To: freebsd-emulation at FreeBSD.ORG; rdivacky at FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Flash plugin with opera or linux-opera on 7.0-Release
> 
> Roman Divacky wrote:
>  > > Does someone have an idea how to get this working?
>  > > Otherwise I'll have to downgrade to FreeBSD 6, which  > 
> > means more wasted time.  :-(  >  > can you try 7-STABLE? 
> there's a bug with mmap() that might  > cause various 
> problems and it's fixed in 7-STABLE but not  > in 7.0R
> 
> I'm now running a fresh RELENG_7, but it doesn't make a 
> difference, I'm afraid.  The error is still exactly the same.
> 
> Actually I'm not sure if it's a regression in the linux 
> emulation ...  It could well be something I do wrong, or 
> something I forgot during update.
> 
> This is the complete output I get:
> 
> (<unknown>:1174): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
>         Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> The program '<unknown>' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>   (Details: serial 97 error_code 8 request_code 147 minor_code 3)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported 
> asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the 
> gdk_x_error() function.)
> opera: Plug-in 1174 is not responding. It will be closed.
> opera: Define environment variable OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN 
> to keep blocked plug-ins.
> 

I've been running Opera on 7 since it was Current in 2006 and sadly
Flash isn't going to work. You may be able to get Flash 7 to work but I
here that that isn't useful on the web anymore. I don't have a great
need for flash.

I was able to get GNASH and swfdec-plugin to work at various degrees.


Rod Person
Programmer
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