Re: Getting flash to work

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> I feel so disadvantaged among my friends who are on Windows and Linux.
> I have never been able to get flash working on my system.  Can someone
> please see if they can help?
>
> I installed www/firefox and www/firefox3.  I then installed
> www/nspluginwrapper followed by multimedia/libflashsupport and then
> multimedia/ns-flash.  I then tried firefox and firefox3.  All I get is
> a grey box and .xsession-errors has a bunch of these:
>
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:
> (/usr/obj/www/nspluginwrapper/work.i386/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-wrapper.c:2390):invoke_NPP_Write:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
>
> I have scoured the net looking for answers but everything I can find is
> what I have already done.  Help.

        On what NetBSD version/arch is this?

        I'd suggest installing adobe-flash-plugin (which should pull
        in nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport{,-pulse}) instead of
        ns-flash.

        I've been using it on NetBSD 5.0BETA/i386 and its working
        pretty well...

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