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Well, apparently we have Flash 9 in Linuxulator in Current working with sound and fc8 linux base.

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:08:40 +0200
From: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@>
Subject: Re: ALSA support for linuxator - any ideas / progress ?
To: freebsd-multimedia@
Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@>,
emulation@, multimedia@
Message-ID: <200810011408.42265.shoesoft@>
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On Wednesday 01 October 2008 13:16:07 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting "Vladimir Grebenschikov" <vova@> (from Wed, 01 Oct 2008
>
> 14:08:08 +0400):
> > Hi
> >
> > As far as we have working flash player under linuxator (see "firefox &
> > flash9 patches" thread in emulation@) it will be nice to have sound
> > here.
> > So far flashplayer9 just complains about no ALSA devices:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Probably anyone have ideas how to make linux ALSA applications to
> > work under FreeBSD ?
> > some obvious ideas here:
> > - provide fake, OSS-backended libalsa (probably there is such beast
> > on Linux ?)
>
> AFAIK there's no such thing on Linux. The openosund developers had a
> fake libalsa, but it was just a minimal one, and they dont't really
> maintain it.
>
> > - port ALSA framework on FreeBSD (looks complex, but there was such
> > talks about this in lists)
>
> There was just some talk to get the OSS libalsa working... but only
> talk, no code. So just assume there's nothing.
>
> > - something else ?
>
> There's a flash9 add-on which uses OSS instead of ALSA
> (libflashsupport.so in the linux-flashplugin9 port). It should work.
> If not someone should have a look at what's going on there.

The port has working sound here with www/linux-firefox.

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Stefan


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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:21:39 +0400
From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@>
Subject: Re: firefox & flash9 patches
To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@>
Cc: [email]freebsd-emulation@, Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@>
Message-ID: <1222878099.21166.78.camel@localhost>
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On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:32 +0400, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 12:20 +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
>
> > > And now flash player works with www/firefox, Thank you Dmitry !
> >
> > so you confirm that the aforementioned patch fixes the flash9?
>
> Yes, but without sound so far. Anyway I think it worth to commit patch.
>
> > what linux_base do you use? I belive this can stem from using way too
> > old libraries with a new firefox.
>
> linux_base-fc6 currently, and now I upgrading to f8 to check.

After upgrading to linux_base-f8 www/firefox3 also works with flash9.

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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
Parallels Inc. vova@