[gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Robin Atwood]

I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from 
portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had 
higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with 
konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just 
segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes 
konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with 
this?

TIA
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:11:36 Robin Atwood wrote:
> I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed
> from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0
> since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0
> with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just
> segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes
> konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success
> with this?

I also could never get the 64bit flash to work wiith konqueror-3.5, and 
nspluginwrapper simply never ever worked at all for me. I had to use firefox 
to view flash.

Latest adobe-flash is 64 bit and works well in konqueror-4.2. Top reports 
around 10% cpu usage when idle, but that's probably more due to a stupid 
blocking IO strategy by Adobe than anything else.

So as I see it your choices are:

firefox
kde-4

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:11:36 Robin Atwood wrote:
> > I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed
> > from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0
> > since I had higher versions masked. I use
> > www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to
> > upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that.
> > adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87
> > segfaults. Anyone having any success with this?
>
> I also could never get the 64bit flash to work wiith konqueror-3.5, and
> nspluginwrapper simply never ever worked at all for me. I had to use
> firefox to view flash.
>
> Latest adobe-flash is 64 bit and works well in konqueror-4.2. Top reports
> around 10% cpu usage when idle, but that's probably more due to a stupid
> blocking IO strategy by Adobe than anything else.
>
> So as I see it your choices are:
>
> firefox
> kde-4

I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :(

-Robin
-- 
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:30:38 Robin Atwood wrote:
> >  So as I see it your choices are:
> > firefox
> > kde-4
>
> I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :(

flash and firefox works, so you have to find why it's bailing on your system. 
What console errors or log messages do you have? Anything in elog alerts that 
might provide a clue?

You could also try swfdec or gnash if you know you don't need the latest and 
greatest flash features.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[KH]

Robin Atwood schrieb:
> I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from 
> portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had 
> higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with 
> konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just 
> segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes 
> konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with 
> this?
> 
> TIA
> -Robin

Hi,

with the amd64 version of flah there is no need for
www-plugins/nspluginwrapper, is there? Did you emerge adobe-flash with
USE Flag -32bit ?

kh

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:30:38 Robin Atwood wrote:
> > >  So as I see it your choices are:
> > > firefox
> > > kde-4
> >
> > I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :(
>
> flash and firefox works, so you have to find why it's bailing on your
> system. What console errors or log messages do you have? Anything in elog
> alerts that might provide a clue?
>
> You could also try swfdec or gnash if you know you don't need the latest
> and greatest flash features.

You're right, firefox works with the latest 64 bit version of flash. I will 
use that when necessary. Thanks!

-Robin
-- 
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Paul Hartman]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood
<robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from
> portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had
> higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with
> konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just
> segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes
> konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with
> this?

On my system, when I did etc-update it automagically renamed
netscape-flash to adobe-flash in my /etc/portage/package* files.
Emerge flash with -32bit use flag and it should work without need for
nspluginwrapper. That includes in Konqueror.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, KH wrote:
> Robin Atwood schrieb:
> > I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed
> > from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0
> > since I had higher versions masked. I use
> > www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to
> > upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that.
> > adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87
> > segfaults. Anyone having any success with this?
> >
> > TIA
> > -Robin
>
> Hi,
>
> with the amd64 version of flah there is no need for
> www-plugins/nspluginwrapper, is there? Did you emerge adobe-flash with
> USE Flag -32bit ?

No, but re-emerging it with -32bit makes no difference with konqueror, it 
still segfaults. Firefox works fine, however.

-Robin
-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood
>
> <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed
> > from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0
> > since I had higher versions masked. I use
> > www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to
> > upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that.
> > adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87
> > segfaults. Anyone having any success with this?
>
> On my system, when I did etc-update it automagically renamed
> netscape-flash to adobe-flash in my /etc/portage/package* files.
> Emerge flash with -32bit use flag and it should work without need for
> nspluginwrapper. That includes in Konqueror.

I unmerged nspluginwrapper but flash still segfaults with konqueror.

-Robin
-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 18 April 2009, KH wrote:
> Robin Atwood schrieb:
> > I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed
> > from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0
> > since I had higher versions masked. I use
> > www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to
> > upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that.
> > adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87
> > segfaults. Anyone having any success with this?
> >
> > TIA
> > -Robin
>
> Hi,
>
> with the amd64 version of flah there is no need for
> www-plugins/nspluginwrapper, is there? Did you emerge adobe-flash with
> USE Flag -32bit ?

well, it still has the advantage that flash can crash as much as it wants with 
the wrapper without affecting konqueror.

That said nspluginwrapper-1.2.2 sucks.