firefox & flash9 patches

[Chagin Dmitry]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:03:38PM +0400, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 14:46 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 October 2008 08:04:23 Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 18:52 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > 
> > I have the following linux packages installed:
> > 
> > linux-atk-1.9.1     Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary
> > linux-cairo-1.0.2   Linux cairo binary
> > linux-expat-1.95.8  Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library
> > linux-firefox-2.0.0.17 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> > linux-flashplugin-9.0r124_1 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
> > linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_7 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig
> > linux-glib2-2.6.6   Version 2.X Linux/i386 binary port of GLib
> > linux-gtk2-2.6.10   GTK+ library, version 2.X, Linux binary
> > linux-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5_1 A high-color icon theme shell from the FreeDesktop project
> > linux-jpeg-6b.34    RPM of the JPEG lib
> > linux-openssl-0.9.7f SSL and crypto library (Linux Version)
> > linux-pango-1.10.2  Linux pango binary
> > linux-png-1.2.8_2   RPM of the PNG lib
> > linux-tiff-3.7.1    TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary
> > linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 Xorg libraries, linux binaries
> > linux_base-fc-4_13  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)
> > 
> > Kernel with Dmitry's linprocfs patch and linprocfs mounted on
> > /compat/linux/proc
> > 
> > sysctl compat.linux
> > compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
> > compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
> > compat.linux.osname: Linux
> > 
> > That's it for linux-firefox.
> 
> Hm, in my case it even does not starts with osrelease=2.4.2
> $ linux-firefox
> FATAL: kernel too old
> $
> 

feel free to switch back to linux_base-fc4.... I'm curiously :)

> > For native firefox, you need to install nspluginwrapper and run
> > "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" as root.
> 
> Same diagnostic from flashplugin9 under ff3, looks like it is due to
> glibc from fedora8
> 
> looks like either flashpayer9 or flashsupport or some linux library
> provides additional ALSA->pcm compatibility.
> 

ktrace/linux_kdump of running linux-ff3 please :)

> > My patch for libflashsupport improves handling of the sound buffer,
> > but sound should already work without it.
> 

thnx!

-- 
Have fun!
chd