I have Slackware 14, 32-bit, with KDE environment.
I am not much of an expert with Linux...

I just installed flash-player-plugin (11.2.202.238) from the SlackBuilds repository.

Everything seems to have gone ok, but when I launch Firefox and type aboutlugin, Flash Player is not mentioned and I cannot get sites that use this plug-in to work properly.

I don't thing that there are dependencies that I need to install, so what exactly do I need to do to get Flash Player to work?

Check to make sure /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins has a file called "libflashplayer.so"

Don't forget to check to make sure that you installed flash for the correct architecture. You say you're using 32-bit, but did you download the 32-bit tarball, or the 64-bit one for the script to use?

did you try to install it manual ? i means
1. download flash here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect
2. tar xzvf install_flash_player_11_linux_*.tar
2. mkdir /home/user/.mozilla/plugins
3. then cp file libflashplayer.so to /home/usr/.mozilla/plugins

done

Hi,
It's better install manual from www.adobe.com. Download flash 32 bits as explained above && enjoy!

Even after it is properly installed, that doesn't mean it will work as it should.

First it was the blue skin, reversed color problem and now the plug-in crashes almost every time I try and use it. Sometimes the video won't play or sometimes it will start, but crash shortly afterwards. It has gotten to the point that if the video is one I really want to watch, I boot to Xp first so I know I can watch it without interruption.

I did have the blue skin problem, but that only affects nVidia chips (and it is fixed [well, worked around] with new libvdpau and/or new nVidia drivers). I haven't had Flash crash anything for at least a year or two. Perhaps you should take a look at your browser settings/profile and/or your system itself...

For the record, I just use Alien Bob's flashplayer-plugin package, which includes the flash-player-properties configuration utility (not that it's very useful). It looks like Adobe just released a new version a couple of days ago and Alien Bob's package isn't updated yet, but he's usually pretty good at packaging in a timely manner.

Well, no it is not fixed in the new nVidia drivers, and, yes, I've check my browser sitting/profile, but the plug-in crashes with Opera, Firefox and Konqueror.


I also use Alien Bob's package and have also tried Salix's package, but the results are the same.

304.51 includes the workaround, assuming you use nVidia's bundled libvdpau (libvdpau.so.304.51). If you use standalone libvdpau then you need to get the latest (0.5), which I haven't tested. If you use SlackBuilds for the nVidia drivers then you will definitely NOT be using the bundled nVidia libvdpau. I can pretty much confirm that the workaround is present and works in 304.51 -- I just upgraded to it yesterday, and I can enable hardware acceleration again and everything looks as it should (whereas, testing just before the upgrade using 304.37, it did not). 64-bit, FYI.

Interesting...I didn't know that nvidia bundled their own version of libvdpau. Does that get installed when using their install script by default? I will have to give it a try as I always have the "inverted colors" flash video problems. I usually have to disable the hardware acceleration to make it work correctly.

I'm using the latest nvidia bundle and it does not solve the problem.

Alien Bob's latest update of the flashplayer-plugin, released yesterday, has taken care of the crashing problem.

Turn off flash hardware acceleration and the blue goes away.

(EDIT: I just turned hardware acceleration back on and there is no blue tint when watching, say, youtube flash videos. Slackware64 14.0. No multilib. Flash version 11.2.202.243)

This was discussed in another thread and here is what finally got rid of the blue (problem for me) without having to turn off hardware acceleration:

The thread is here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...692/page3.html

VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY disables hardware acceleration simply on another layer.