D&C GLug - Home Page

[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]

Re: [LUG] Flash 9 beta

 

On 20/10/06, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Now I know not everyone is a fan of Flash, but for those of you who are
> you might be interested to know that Adobe Flash Player 9 has been
> released.  There is a Mozilla plugin and a standalone player avaliable
> here: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html
> (Click Go get it).
>
> I tried the plugin with Firefox and it seems to work okay.
>
> To install it I untar'd the tar.gz file and copied the libflashplayer.so
> to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and also to my user Firefox plugins
> directory (~/.mozilla/plugins) although thinking about it now it would
> have probably just have been easier to create a link.
>
> Just thought I'd mention it.  As I said above, not everyone will be
> interested as it's non-free but it's possible that some of you folks
> might not have heard about it and would want to give it a try?
>
> Rob

Have they got it working nicely with ALSA yet?  I'm a little sick of
having to run my browser through AOSS if I want sound.  How long has
ALSA been around?  How long has it been the default audio-output method
in Linux?

Yes, it now uses ALSA perfectly.

--
Ben Goodger
#391382
---------------------

Mi admiras religiajn; ili estas fine ebliĝinta solvi la maljunegan demandon "kiel oni povas vivi sencerbe?".
It is well-known that I am blunt and unsophisticated. It's largely your fault if you object to this.
-- 
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list
FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html