Which Flash player with a 64 bits mozilla ?

Getget94 · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 6

Hello, I currently emerged mozilla 1.6, swfdec and libswf, but it doesn't work :/

Do you managed to get a working flash player with a 64bits version of browser ?

(Sorry for the english & the question, but i'm a french noob lol)

altrent · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

Salut,

You have to emerge the mozilla-firefox-bin (32 bits compiled firefox) along with all the pre-required emul libraries. It works very well for me.
64bits browser do not work with flash yet.

Getget94 · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 6

It seems like I can't emerge it .... do I have to emerge 32 bits emulation before ? Do I have to put a ACCEPT_KEYWORDS somewhere ?

It seems not that simple to build 32 bits appz, I hink i'll wait until 64 bit flash is available lol

plemon · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2003 Posts: 8

To get mozilla-firefox-bin to install and work correctly on the amd64 platform, you'll need to emerge to emul-linux-* packages from the app-emulation tree

eg:

emerge emul-linux-x86-baselibs
emerge emul-linux-x86-xlibs
emerge emul-linux-x86-gtklibs

and then emerge mozilla-firefox-bin. This has several dependancies on lib-compat etc etc that arn't needed on amd64, so use

emerge --nodeps mozilla-firefox-bin

now your all set to emerge netscape-flash

This should get you up and running in now time! Now it's time to visit www.castlewolfenstein.com (which requires flash to work properly), and demand an x86_64 port!

Phill L / not|me

Getget94 · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 6

Thank you for your patience

I have a problem merging firefox :

himpierre · l33t Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 829 Location: Berlin

Hello

Try:

Getget94 · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 6

This works

Poseidon · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject:

You don't need a 32-bit browser. Guys, this is WHY we have a lib-compat library and the 32-bit emulation. Sometimes, I wonder where people pull stuff from. :roll:

Unfortunately the lib-compat emerge is retarded and broken. Just manually untar it and copy the files from the "x86" to your "/lib" directory.

:idea:

Flash works for me on my native Mozilla 1.7 beta 64-bit, Netscape 7.1 (precompiled), and my custom emerged Mozilla 1.6.1 compiled here for 64-bit.

This should work for other plugins as well.

alshain · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:18 am Post subject:

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Vendicatore · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

It didn't work for me too.
The emul libs are only for 32bit binary to run even if they aren't statically linked with requested libs...
But I've another problems with 64bit native Mozilla (and Firefox too):
it dont recognize correctly java plugin of blackdown jdk 1.4.2 (rc1) compiled in 64bit.
Anyone have this problem too?

Corona688 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204

In order to get netscape-flash working, I had to borrow the libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 from a 32-bit x86 Redhat box; gflashplayer and the netscape-flash plugin wouldn't use the 32-bit one the emulation libraries installed no matter how much I yelled at them. Try 'ldd gflashplayer' to see if it needs that lib; it might not be the 64-bit browser's fault.
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Q · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:39 am Post subject:

The blackdown 1.4.2_rc1 64 bit jdk plugin works with mozilla 1.6. The symlink in the mozilla plugin directory is to the wrong filename. Correcting the link makes it all work
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Lemma · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 10:47 am Post subject:

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Q · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject:

Here is what you need to do

1. go to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
2. rm javaplugin_oji.so
3. ln -s /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2_rc1/jre/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so javaplugin_oji.so
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Ben2040 · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 445 Location: UK

Hi

Does that also work with the JRE?

Ben

herbie · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 319 Location: London UK

poisson · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 35

Generally speaking, 32bit plugins work with 32bit browsers, and 64bit plugins works with 64bit browsers.

In fact on my dual Opteron box, Netscape recognize Shockwave Flash and Acrobat plugins, while Firefox recognize Java (both 64bit built from scratch).

32bit emulation support does not help. I think the only way to have Firefox with flash plugin is to force Macromedia to release a native version.

Pythagoras1 · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject:

and why doesn't even gplflash work?
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LaNcom · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject:

GPLFlash _does_ work, more or less. But it's very unstable, only supports parts of Flash up to v4, crashes on v5, v6 and v7 applets, and it seems to be abandoned for quite some time now.

I think it should be possible to create some remote control/ translator plugin (something like plugger, a 64bit plugin that opens and controls 32bit plugins loaded in a 32bit plugin host, maybe using ports to communicate). But then again, I'm no coder. Maybe this would be possible with something like KDE's nspluginviewer, I don't know if it's possible for 32bit DCOP apps to communicate with 64bit DCOP apps, so this could be used for communication...
Anyone interested to give it a try?! ;-)

Pythagoras1 · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject:

Pythagoras1 · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:03 pm Post subject:

netscape-flash isn't masked any more for ~amd64 but it still doesn't work with 64 bit firefox.
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PredatorX · n00b Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 55

Okay guys.
By reading this post I have mozilla firefox bin working with flash
and mozilla (64-bit) with java.
Hell, I want ONE browser that's supports both!
I don't care how many bits it has.
I tried to emerge the sun-jre-bin. Works, but when I symlink the java plugin from the
/opt/sun-jre-bin-1.4.2.05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 dir, firebird crashes when I open this page:
http://www.javatester.org/version.html
where mozilla gives the blackdown plugin.
Does any one know how to get Java working on the firebird-bin (0.8 ) or other versions maybe do work?
Thanks for any help!
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p-Lo · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject:

using firefox-bin and netscape-flash-7.x on my 64 bit install still doesn't even work entirely correctly. It has problems with keyboard input sometimes, and sometimes pauses and continues otherwise smooth animations every few seconds. I hope the plugin improves sometime soon, because i don't see any open format or tools replacing flash anytime in the forseeable future.
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