A New fedora user question

[rlengland at verizon.net]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at  6:22 AM, Jeff Maxwell wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:24 +1030, Tim wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 19:46 +1100, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
>>> 1- I installed the adobe flash player, but when I explore some 
>>> intenet
>>> pages which require flash player, it says missing flash player. Any
>>> one knows how can I resolve this problem?
>
> I too have had issues with Adobe Flash player.  I have visited web 
> sites
> that say that I am missing this.  I've gone to the the Adobe web site
> and have followed their instructions but still find that the yum or 
> rpm
> process has not properly updated FireFox.  Per the Adobe web site, if 
> I
> check the plug ins, I should see that Adobe Flash is include after
> following the install instructions.  Fedora 9 believes that it has
> installed it.
>
>>
>> That could just be badly authored sites, but you'd need to give us 
>> some
>> examples.  A common reason that sites reckon you don't have something
>> that you do have is that they do a stupid test via something *else*,
>> then make wrong assumptions based on those results (e.g. use 
>> JavaScript
>> to check something, or try to set a cookie, or look at the version of
>> the browser that you're using and compare it with their short list).
>>
>> An example of a Flash-using site that work relatively painless for 
>> me,
>> without having to install anything other than the Adobe Flash player
>> (via their repo), and the libflashsupport RPM:  http://youtube.com/
>>
>>> 2- can anybody please tell me how to download and install latest 
>>> nvida
>>> driver for my computer?
>>
>> Up until a day or so ago, I would have said add the Livna repo to 
>> your
>> computer, and yum install akmod-nvidia (rebuilds itself after any new
>> kernel installations), *OR* kmod-nvidia (requires updating with an
>> updated kmod-nvidia RPM after any new kernel installations).  But 
>> Livna
>> has just merged into RPM fusion, and I'm not sure of the procedure 
>> for
>> starting from scratch, now.
>>
>> I see no harm in installing the Livna repo RPM for Fedora 9, then 
>> doing
>> yum update once or twice to let it sort itself out.  Then yum install
>> the nvidia RPM that you want.  See:  <http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/>.
>> I'm sure it'd be a bit less messy to start off with the RPM Fusion 
>> repo,
>> but I can't advise about doing something that I've not done, myself.
>>
>> The kmod-nvidia also had two variations, for 96xx series and legacy
>> graphics cards.  See:  http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher
>>
>> -- 
>> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
>> 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686
>>
>> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
>> read messages from the public lists.
>>
>>
>>
>
> -- 

I ran into a situation with Firefox where I had an older version of the 
Adobe flash plugin loaded and loaded a newer one thinking it would 
over-write the old one.  It loaded in a new location and I ended up 
having two of them installed

This showed up when I used   "about:plugins"  and looked at the plugins 
Firefox reported.  I then had to do some searching to find the older 
version and remove it.  This has been sometime about and I'm not at that 
machine so I can't give any more details.

Hope this help a little.

~~R