Re: libmap.conf firefox flash

From: Beecher Rintoul (akbeech_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/08/05

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    To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
    Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:51:19 -0800
    
    
    

    On Wednesday 07 September 2005 10:06 pm, Scott Robbins wrote:
    > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:49:10PM -0800, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
    > > On Wednesday 07 September 2005 08:43 pm, Stefan 'Steve' Tell wrote:
    > > > * Massimo Introvigne <massimo.introvigne@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > > > Does anyone have a /etc/libmap.conf that will allow flash +
    > > > > linuxpluginwrapper + firefox and FreeBSD 6.0 to work correctly?
    > > >
    > > > This works for me:
    > > >
    > > > ,----[ /etc/libmap.conf ]
    > > >
    > > > | [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so]
    > > > | libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
    > > > | libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
    > > > | libz.so.1 libz.so.2
    > > > | libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.4
    > > > | libm.so.6 libm.so.3
    > > > | libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so
    > >
    > > I'm also trying to get flash to work with firefox. flashpluginwrapper and
    > > linux-flashplugin-7 installed. I tried the above libmap.conf and still
    > > nothing. Can someone walk me through this? I must be missing something.
    > >
    > > Thanks,
    >
    > For multimedia, I have done the following and it works with no user
    > intervention.
    >
    > Install native firefox.
    > Install linuxpluginwrapper (not flashpluginwrapper).
    >
    > It will install acroread7, realplayer and flash6 if not installed.
    >
    > On 6.x and above, copy
    > /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD5-current
    > to /etc/libmap.conf
    >
    > I also install mplayer and mplayer-plugin.
    >
    > A few flash heavy sites will freeze firefox, such as tvguide.com if you
    > go the listings and click on a listing.
    >
    > For those I use linux-firefox. I actually install it from source rather
    > than ports, and leave it in my $HOME directory.
    >
    > With this, firefox will work with flash (6 however, not 7) realplayer,
    > mplayer (for avis, most windows media player files) and the like.
    >
    > I believe mplayer also works with most quicktime stuff though you might
    > have to install another program (I've forgotten how I did it, and a
    > quick search of /var/db/pkg isn't giving me the answer, but I remember
    > it was relatively trivial, the first or second hit on google.)
    >
    > This has worked consistantly for me since 5.x

    Thanks that worked for me!

    Beech

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