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 1Gdyse-00089n-0e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:50:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9T0mIqE012805; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:48:18 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9T0kGFn022834 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:46:16 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2572188nfa for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:46:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=k/iYTfg6xgjEZ+3rdDdjKEtqeGk0nrDjGpo0ZwAiPLEvro/I3TMCeKFFkVvpG8GEVrg1AYymicoCqDvwH+rd+/sTgj6awsOiXgMhbRVMiH01kSpkDuUZjV3li2+ulfzTx9fqmesTpq4x6rcQqfcIrD+JqsJtdljFCyGsVAbDS/g= Received: by 10.82.190.2 with SMTP id n2mr195355buf; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.106.3 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640610281746j4ab52446y55eb24faf5feb19f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:46:16 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection In-Reply-To: <200610281209.51435.gentoo@matthewlee.org> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200610281209.51435.gentoo@matthewlee.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: d9d28d9232fa9506 X-Archives-Salt: 30356908-7251-49d6-bb56-925d1e000f90 X-Archives-Hash: 73a05a545fe4085789153eb285e6c216 On 10/28/06, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I'm an e-season ticket holder at liverpoolfc.tv where I can listen to live > commentary of all the games and watch video highlights. Last season > everything worked fine (or more or less fine), this season they have changed > the econsole to work with flash. I have the flashplugin installed and it > works. However, when I launch the econsole it says it needs flashplugin > installed (it can't detect it) as a consequence I can't access the media > streams (except through the technical support page). I've complained to the > technical support but got the usual answer "we do not fully support or test > on Linux systems" Before I write back an tell them what I think about that, > I would like to be able to tell them how to fix it. 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list