Adobe Flash differences in Linux

bimmin · 11-28-2009, 06:19 PM

A certain adult website I frequent recently changed their IM program. It no longer works on my machine (Ubuntu 9.10) even though I meet the requirements for both firefox and flash versions. This sucks since their old version worked great - it even had no problem using my integrated webcam. This "newest technology" they have upgraded to supports fewer computers out there

I guess flash is not really cross platform. Anyone experience similar problems?

GlennsPref · 11-28-2009, 11:09 PM

Yep, heaps!

Flash is broken on my Mandriva 2010.0 system

Although I can play flv movies, and utube works, Most of the "adult sites" (kungfu violence) are (blocked) static(black screens in my browser window)

<edit>I use this page to test flash in my browser,
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/ </edit>

I have flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386.rpm installed.

It insists on removing nspluginwrapper (i386) ns=Netscape....

Anyway, if you find a fix, or I do, post back here. Please.

Regards Glenn

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Electro · 11-29-2009, 03:19 AM

I would say all pre-compiled distributions make themselves broken because the maintainers are not strictly controlled. Besides that, you could add the folllowing to "/etc/adobe/mms.cfg".

OverrideGPUValidation = 1
WindowlessDisable = 1

Making OverrideGPUValidation true or 1 forces it do OpenGL or GPU since Adobe uses an idiotic way of checking. Setting WindowlessDisable to true or 1 increases stability and reliability, but it causes DHTML (HTML + Javascript) menus to go behind Flash content.

I have not tried the video capture feature in Flash. I think this feature mainly depends on the quality of the video capture module. I do not care that this feature works, but if you insist on using it start a bug report at Adobe's site. Adobe will eventually provide a Flash player plug-in that actually works.

GlennsPref · 11-29-2009, 06:39 PM

Hi, I have managed to fix flash on my system,

First I tried Electro's hack, the file did not exist, so I created it.

No joy, but I left it there anyway.

referring to this page...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...r-help-761233/

and this page...post #7...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-linux-750063/

(Both of these pages are listed at the bottom of this webpage.)

I first installed adobe flash with this, as mentioned in the first link...

Code:

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sudo wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
#rm install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz (I decided to leave it there, download bandwidth saving)
ls

then restarted firefox, But to no avail.

I then decided to install gnash and all of it's dependants (automagically listed) and the nspluginwrappers

gnash is an open source flash implementation,

Like this, (Mandriva)...

Code:

urpmi --noclean gnash-0.8.5-1mdv2009.1.x86_64 gnash-firefox-plugin-0.8.5-1mdv2009.1.x86_64 gnash-konqueror-plugin-0.8.5-1mdv2010.0.x86_64 lib64agg2-2.5-5mdv2009.1.x86_64 lib64boost1.38.0-1.38.0-2mdv2010.0.x86_64 lib64gnash0-0.8.5-1mdv2010.0.x86_64 nspluginwrapper-i386 nspluginwrapper

(Version numbers may be different on other systems and times.)

Restarted firefox, and the page I use for testing now works.

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

So this is a bit of a conglomeration, using a few techniques, but it works for me.

Cheers, and Regards Glenn

Electro · 11-30-2009, 01:40 AM

GlennsPref, that site works fine for my setup using Firefox 3.5.4 with Adobe Flash 10.0.32.18. The video card that I am using is nVidia GeForce8 8400M GS and nVidia driver version 185.18.36. I use "Option AddARGBGLXVisuals True" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Your problem could be a user problem which goes back to the maintainers that builds RPM files for Mandriva.

I have not found any site that has a problem with the Linux version of Flash player. Though there are some sites that are created with layers that makes it harder or impossible to access if the layer is covering the flash content.

GlennsPref · 11-30-2009, 02:03 AM

Hi, I agree, it may be a maintainer issue.

It has worked perfectly before.

I stopped using...

Quote:

..."Option AddARGBGLXVisuals True" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

With the introduction of kde4.x and qt4.

I read on nvnews, it was no longer required.

My /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Code:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Wed Jul 22 16:45:17 PDT 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "MEA"
    ModelName 	   "1280x1024 @ 50 Hz"#"DV177/SB"
    HorizSync      31.5 - 64.3
    VertRefresh    50.0 - 70.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    VendorName     "GigaByte"
    BoardName      "GigaByte GeForce 9800gt (GTX+)"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    #Driver         "vesa"
    Option 	   "DPMS"
    VideoRam	    524288
    Option 	   "RenderAccel" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option	   "HWCursor"
    Option         "PixmapCacheSize" "1000000"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option 	   "Composite"
    Option 	   "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection

But flash is now working, without adjusting that file.

I realise my approach is convoluted, but it works.

Thanks for the advise. (It may help others)

Regards Glenn

<edit>I use firefox 3.5.5, and kde4.2.3 and Mandriva 2010.0, Adobe Flash 10.0.32.18 was installed when I started (hence, the term convoluted) </edit>

GlennsPref · 11-30-2009, 02:23 AM

Also, regarding this info...

Code:

Firefox Flash plugin fails to work on x86-64 architecture

Some users have reported that the Flash plugin that is installed with Mandriva 
Linux 2008 Spring One and Powerpack fails to work on the x86-64 versions of 
these editions. This is because the nspluginwrapper wrapper program, which 
allows the 32-bit plugin to work with the 64-bit browser, is looking in the 
wrong place to find the plugin. To work around this problem, run the following 
command as root in terminal:

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

to confirm that it worked, you can run:

nspluginwrapper -l

and you should see the libflashplayer.so file in the resulting list. 
Now re-start Firefox, and the Flash plugin should work.

#############################################################
glenn@GamesBox:~$ nspluginwrapper -l            (30-11 18:15)
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
  Original plugin: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
  Plugin viewer: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer
  Wrapper version string: 1.3.0