Re: no sound from Flash9 plugin

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM, AN <andy_at_neu.net> wrote:

>
> 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
>> Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4  EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
>>
>
>
> 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


 nspluginwrapper -i
/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so



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