Flash support [branched fromRe: F10 on Homebuilt Box - Absolutely Brutal...!!!!]

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Sun Nov 16 22:53:28 UTC 2008


On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, drago01 wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
>> Scott Robbins wrote, On 11/16/2008 05:18 PM:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 04:30:33PM +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 64 bit machine or Flash 9?
>>>>  http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10preview/en_US/What_is_the_Latest_on_the_Desktop.html#sn-Web_browsers
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just looked at the release notes, and it's really quite unclear.
>>> "If you are using Flash 10, you do not need libflashsupport anymore as
>>> the usage of ALSA has been fixed in this version.
>>> "Users of Fedora x86_64 must install the nspluginwrapper.i386 package to
>>> enable the 32-bit Adobe Flash Player plug-in in Firefox, and the
>>> libflashsupport.i386 package to enable sound from the plugin."
>>> ^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> So, is it needed or not?
>>
>> I thought it was clear but hard to read: That libflashsupport isn't
>> "generally" (ie on i386) needed, but on 64-bit it is however still needed.
>
> NO, its *NOT* needed.

Tell that to my system. :-) On my F10 x86_64 system, audio does not work
without it. I know what the docs say but...

The problem for me is I am not sure what to file a bug against. Suggestions?

Regards,

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