On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 10:24 -0700, Jason Barnett wrote: > I have been running the beta version of flash (64 bit) for about a > week on my laptop which has an ATI graphics chipset and on my desktop > with an nVidia chipset and had no problems. In fact, I have only had > problems with the version of flash from the repositories. > What kind of issues are you having? > > I am running Kubuntu 10.10 on all my systems and am considering > replacing my nVidia card with an ATI simply because they work so well. > The open source Radeon driver seems to work quite well aside from > power saving features (which rules out the use of it on my laptop) so > I too am using the closed source fglrx driver. > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Michael C. Robinson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The betas for flash just don't seem to work at all for me. > > Lightspark is a beautiful concept, but not yet anything more than that. > > I'm stuck using the proprietary Catalyst driver, come on AMD. > > High end video cards for which there are open source drivers are going > > to be more popular than cards that only work with closed source drivers. > > Why has the video card market contracted so badly and why does NVIDIA > > have a defacto monopoly at this point? I am not happy with NVIDIA and > > I'm sure I'm not alone. The problem with keeping the specs closed is > > that Microsoft gets an unfair advantage over Linux let alone other OSes > > such as Syllable Desktop and Visopsys.
I have tried to get flash working to no avail on my AMD Phenom II system. I suspect that either a) I need to use a 32 bit version of firefox or b) this would work on an Intel based system. I have tried downloading the 64 bit beta libflashplayer.so and copying it to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins. I have tried installing 32 bit flash through yum, though I suspect that will only work with a 32 bit version of firefox. I question the it just works answers I'm getting as that just simply isn't what I'm experiencing. I have even tried lightspark and verified using about:plugins that it is installed, it doesn't work. Rumor has it, 64 bit flash doesn't work in Windows 7 even. I've seriously thought about getting Windows 7 because my silicon HD HomeRun tuner doesn't work either under Fedora 13 x86_64. My pentium 4 system running Fedora 12 supports both flash and my network based tuner just fine, but I'm trying to retire that system. Maybe I screwed up and bought the wrong barebones kit. This is the Vision barebones AMD kit from TigerDirect with quad core AMD Phenom II processor. I had to add a terabyte SATA hard disk and 4 gigs of ram. I also added a DVD burner. It works for me doesn't help me at all. I need instructions so I can hopefully reproduce that experience. At least my new system is working well enough to get this email out ;-) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
