From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GeCC0-0003Nt-64 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:03:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9TF0uvg005179; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:00:56 GMT Received: from colo15.ukhost4u.com (colo15.ukhost4u.com [85.13.251.161]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9TEvFC6025144 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:57:15 GMT Received: from 48-7-28.dial.terra.cl ([200.28.7.48] helo=[192.168.1.14]) by colo15.ukhost4u.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GeC60-0003lS-Ey for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:57:09 +0000 From: "Matthew R. Lee" Organization: CASEB, P.Universidad Catolica de Chile To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:56:47 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200610281209.51435.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <7573e9640610281746j4ab52446y55eb24faf5feb19f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610281746j4ab52446y55eb24faf5feb19f@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610291156.47667.gentoo@matthewlee.org> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - colo15.ukhost4u.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - matthewlee.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Archives-Salt: f80904c6-9459-4bac-9862-c98764531646 X-Archives-Hash: 3fb107b339c925f36c60bc4661dc22c4 On Saturday 28 October 2006 21:46, Richard Fish wrote: > > It isn't something they can fix on their end. > > You didn't mention what browser you are using, but assuming it is > firefox does the flash plugin show up when you go to "about:plugins"? > If not, then somehow it is not installed or not installed correctly. > > Another possibility is that they are using flash version 8 or higher, > which had no linux version until a few weeks ago. In this case you > may try unmask the beta of netscape-flash-9.x with "echo > '=net-www/netscape-flash-9*' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask". I > haven't tried it, but have seen reports of memory leaks and browser > crashes that are attributable to this. > > Another option for flash8 compatibility is to install the windows > version of firefox and flash under wine. I have done this with some > success. > > -Richard I'm using Konqueror (3.5.2) with netscape-flash (7.0.68) It's installed properly and working The liverpool site clearly doesn't detect its presence or doesn't like it. In the econsole If I click on "get adobe flash plugin" adobe offers me the the same version as the one I have. I guess I'll have to give flash 9 a go Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE matt@matthewlee.org mlee@bio.puc.cl URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list