Posts Tagged ‘ flash ’
Howto install flash in 64bit archlinux. #pacman -S flashplugin done! I was surprised when I did that by mistake, that it actually seems to have installed the 64bit flash-plugin rather than the 32bit one with nspluginwrapper & co. No more manually moving files around! [ READ MORE ]
Firefox 3.5 crashes when trying to view a flash video in fullscreen. Not to worry, for there is a workaround. in /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.1pre/firefox.sh EDIT: the path on Fedora 11 is: /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/run-mozilla.sh you add export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 at the beginning of the file, but underneath #!/bin/sh So it looks like this: #!/bin/sh #fix the goddamn flash bug. export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 # Firefox launcher containing a Profile migration [ READ MORE ]
This is a short howto get the Nvidia drivers and multimedia stuff installed on your new Fedora 11. I assume you have a newly installed system before following this. The first thing you want to do before you run `yum update` is to install yum-presto: `yum install yum-presto`, and save some time and bandwidth. Next up is to install dkms [ READ MORE ]
Testing Kubuntu Karmic, and KDE 4.3 Beta. This is going to be a great release! KDE 4.3 Beta is much improved from the 4.2.3 I’ve played with recently, all small things, and I’m sure I haven’t found them all yet. One has to be careful updating this thing though, yesterdays updates broke KDE totally, good [ READ MORE ]
I was looking for something new in linux desktops. Ubuntu and it’s deriatives never really gave me what I wanted from a desktop and they always felt a bit slow on this system at least. I installed Archlinux and discovered the speed I was missing, but it’s too much tweaking neccesary really, ( Archers, please [ READ MORE ]
Just got opensolaris set up on my desktop system, flash, drivers and all. still searching for daap support so I can listen to my music. Seems like a pretty solid system now, even tough it has it’s share of weirdnesses. I’ll completement this post later with an howto for installing drivers for the Audigy2 Zs [ READ MORE ]
This post is to help set up multimedia on your freshly installed Fedora 10. What we want to do is get all of the webs multimedia to play on our system and install the necessary drivers for our graphics card. I have an old Nvidia 6200 card here, so I’ll use that one as an [ READ MORE ]
Howto install the new alpha of Adobe’s Flash 10 on 64bit Ubuntu 8.10. Download the plugin and extract it somewhere. Uninstall flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper using Synaptic “Mark for Complete Removal“. Then copy the libflashplayer.so you extracted earlier to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ . Edit: Gentoo users should copy to /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ That should be it! [ READ MORE ]
Adobe Systems has spun out an alpha version of its Flash Player 10 technology for 64-bit Linux software users today, to satisfy the needs of freetards everywhere. The multinational said it has done so to underscore its “commitment to the Linux community” which is ahead of Windows and Apple Mac OS X in the 64-bit processor [ READ MORE ]
Saturdays are made for totally rebuilding your system! This time it is time to try out PCBSD, never used a bsd system before, and this one seemed simple enough to start with. The install took a whopping 16 minutes on desktop machine, which is a few years old, I have all the drivers installed, no effort [ READ MORE ]