Re: no sound from Flash9 plugin

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:49:16 +0000 (GMT)
>> From: AN <andy_at_neu.net>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome_at_freebsd.org
>>
>> I'm having a problem getting sound to play in Flash9, the video works
>> fine.  I followed the instructions from http://crnl.org/blog/2008/11/01/flash-9-for-freebsd-71
>> and the install completed without problems.
>>
>> System info:
>>
>> uname -a
>> FreeBSD test.fu.bar 8.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 #0: Sun Sep  6 04:44:31
>> UTC 2009     root_at_mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>> amd64
>>
>> Gnome 2.26.3
>>
>> firefox-3.5.3,1     Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
>> linux-flashplugin-9.0r246 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
>> linux-f10-atk-1.24.0 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary (Linux
>> Fedora 10)
>> linux-f10-cairo-1.8.0 Vector graphics library Cairo (Linux Fedora 10)
>> linux-f10-expat-2.0.1 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library
>> (Linux
>> linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0 An XML-based font configuration API for X
>> Windows (Linux Fe
>> linux-f10-gtk2-2.14.7 GTK+ library, version 2.X (Linux Fedora 10)
>> linux-f10-jpeg-6b   RPM of the JPEG lib (Linux Fedora 10)
>> linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g The OpenSSL toolkit (Linux Fedora 10)
>> linux-f10-pango-1.22.3 The pango library (Linux Fedora 10)
>> linux-f10-png-1.2.37 RPM of the PNG lib (Linux Fedora 10)
>> linux-f10-tiff-3.8.2 The TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary (Linux Fedora 10)
>> linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1 Xorg libraries (Linux Fedora 10)
>> linux-flashplugin-9.0r246 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
>> linux_base-f10-10_2 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode for
>> i386/amd64 (L
>>
>>
>> part of dmesg:
>> Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988,
>> 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: The Regents of the University of California.
>> All rights reserved.
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The
>> FreeBSD Foundation.
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 #0: Sun Sep  6 04:44:31 UTC
>> 2009
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel:
>> root_at_mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect
>> reduced performance.
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
>> quality 0
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q8200  _at_
>> 2.33GHz (2333.08-MHz K8-class CPU)
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x10677
>> Stepping = 7
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel:
>> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel:
>> Features2=0x8e39d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1>
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: TSC: P-state invariant
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: real memory  = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: avail memory = 4104114176 (3913 MB)
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: ACPI APIC Table: <A_M_I_ OEMAPIC >
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected:
>> 4 CPUs
>> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
>>
>> Sound is working for all system sounds, and multimedia apps like totem.
>> Any help is really appreciated, please let me know if there is more info
>> that I need to provide.
>>
>> TIA
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>
> Andy,
>
> This has been a known issue with Flash9 since Adobe fixed a security
> problem a couple of months ago. Since Flash does not support the OSS
> audio used by FreeBSD, they probably were unaware that they were
> breaking the sound.
>
> The only solution I have seen is to install Flash10
> (linux-f10-flash10).
>
> Since linux_base-f10 is the standard Linux emulation for 8.0, I suggest
> that you replace all of your linux-* ports with "linux-f10-*" ports. If
> you use portupgrade, 'portupgrade -o emulators/linux_base-f10
> linux_base'. Use a similar command for all of your linux-* ports. Look
> in /usr/ports/UPDATING, you will find a discussion of updating linux to
> f10.
>
> Note that users will need to update the nsplugingwrapper plug-ins before
> Flash10 will work. I believe that 'nspluginwrapper -u' should do the
> trick. (Remember that it must be run by each user while logged into his
> or her own account.)
> -- 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman_at_es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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Hi Kevin:

Thanks for your reply.  I installed linux-f10-flash10 as you suggested.

pkg_info | grep linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32
linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin

I had already installed linux_base-f10-10_2, see above.  I tried to 
execute nspluginwrapper -u, and I received this response: nspluginwrapper: 
expected plugin(s) file name to update

Now, flash does not work at all.  Previously I had video, but no sound, 
and now nothing. I tried the following command,  cd 
/usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins && ln -s 
/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so 
npwrapper.libflashplayer.so but still nothing.

Any other ideas, what other info can I provide to troubleshoot?

Thanks