Fullscreen flash in firefox 3.5
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 helper for
# temporary profiles used during alpha and beta phases.…
Save, and try out some flash video in fullscreen.
This should work for Archlinux, Fedora and Ubuntu. The path to firefox.sh might vary though.
Workaround taken from https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/333127/comments/13
Karmic Koala Alpha 1
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 thing I have fluxbox installed to fall back to when things break. And they will break, this is an alpha release afterall. There’s not a medibuntu repository set up for Karmic, so the Apple trailers won’t play, but everything else is working, Amarok can play daap streams again, pulseaudio seems to be working very well as my Audigy card now again outputs same signal to front and side speakers like I want it to. Flash videos don’t eat as much cpu as they used to.
I installed Kubuntu Karmic Alpha 1 on my main desktop, Athlon XP 2600+ , 1,5 GB ram, Nvidia 6200 AGP and 40GB /, 80 GB /home with ext4 as file system. It’s using less than 500 megs of memory as I type this while Amarok is playing in the background and Firefox running with 1 whole tab open. I realized I suck at writing reviews, so I’ll shut up and post some pictures for you instead, ok? 
While I was taking these, Ksnapshot caused KDE to become unresponsive to anything but ctrl + alt + del bringing up the shutdown menu, and I found out ctrl + alt + backspace is disabled. Annoying.
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- This is what to expect with alpha software.
The calendar has gained some new features, you now get to see the holidays marked in red on the calendar. Configurable too by Country. This one is showing all holidays in Finland.
You can find out more about KDE 4.3 here, and about Koala here.
If you wonder about the theme I’m using, it’s called air and available on http://www.kde-look.org
Got to stop…
..My seemingly endless distrohopping.
If anyone’s got some tips how to stop hopping, please do share them! 
Anywhoo I’m back to Ubuntu.
Gnome with Dust Sand theme. Still need to install vmware server 2 on the laptop, so I can study Windows servers + networking and AD and WSUS and Exchange and all the other buggy stuff. Vmware server 2 is good in the sense that it actually shares the NAT between virtual machines, unlike VirtualBox. Otherwise I’d use that. Vmware server 2 is fast run through a local net too, no mentionable lag as I first suspected there would be. Anyhow I’m just rambling, I’ll get back to my whiskey on the rocks now.
Thanks for reading.
Debian & Enlightenment = elive
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 don’t kill me! I like Arch! ) but the point in bringing up Arch, it is where I rediscovered the enlightenment window manager! Installation is easy in Arch:
`pacman -Sy e17-svn e17-extra-svn desktop-file-utils`
and you’re done! Easy. But still, if you really want to enjoy enlightenment you have to check out elive. It is the most beutiful system you will ever see.
It is built on Debian testing, “Lenny”, the 2.6.26.8 linux kernel, and the enlightenment wm.
Thunar is the default filemanager, wich you might know from Xfce. It does a great job, but fails to browse network shares, as in samba. I have yet to find an replacement, I do not want nautilus eiter, so I’m stuck with sftp through the console for now.
Iceweasel 3.0.3 with the iFox theme is the default web browser, and has
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124
Java 1.0.6
Mozilla-mplayer
Google Preview
Installed as plugins.
I removed mozilla-mplayer and replaced it with the newer gecko-mediaplayer, wich can play the movie trailers on Apple.com without any problem. Mozilla-mplayer cannot.
The installation of gecko-mediaplayer is not that easy, a simple `aptitude install gecko-mediaplayer` will not do, as it is not in the repos. It can be found, however, in the unstable, or “Sid” repos of Debian. You need to get the dependancys too:
For gecko-mediaplayer_0.9.3-1_i386.deb:
gnome-mplayer_0.9.3-1_i386.deb
libdiscid0_0.1.0-1_i386.deb
libmusicbrainz3-6_3.0.2-1_i386.deb
Install those, and the movie trailers works! yay!
So far I have been very pleased with elive. More to follow in the few days, when I’ve been using this system for a longer time.
This is the development release of elive, not the stable one. the stable download requires a small payment, but the development version is free of charge.
It comes with multimedia codecs and drivers for Nvidia ( probably ATi too ) installed by default. My nvidia 6200 was detected and resolution was correct on boot.
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My pretty much default desktop:
My Desktop
Now, go GET IT!
Switching to Ubuntu, an adventure.
Found this great review of Ubuntu. AshPringle has a plan:
The plan: Ring in the new year by switching over to Linux for a week, documenting each day of the transition.
A very humoristic review too.
segmentation fault….50%
Today i got a segfault from aptitude on Ubuntu 8.10. This is caused by corrupted files in /var/cache/apt/ and is usually caused by bad hardware like harddrives and such, I discovered a bad memory module when I ran memtest.
The corrupted file in /var/cache/apt stops you from updating and installing packages, which isn’t very nice now is it? Here’s a fix for you:
run this in a terminal
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin && sudo aptitude update
Then I would suggest you run memtest86+ and check for memory errors to be on the safe side.
Thanks to Dean Lee for solving this and the guys and girls at ubuntuforums too.
Ubuntu 8.10 IOMMU
Since I installed Ubuntu Intrebid Ibex and upgraded my RAM to 4 gigs, i have been getting something like this message at boot:
[ 0.004000] Checking aperture…
[ 0.004000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.004000] Node 0: aperture @ 20000000 size 32 MB
[ 0.004000] Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.
[ 0.004000] Your BIOS doesn’t leave a aperture memory hole
[ 0.004000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
[ 0.004000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM
[ 0.004000] Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 20000000
So I searched the ubuntuforums for the solution to this, and it was pretty simple:
add iommu=noaperture to the kernel line in your /boot/grub/menu.list file. When You reboot, you will no longer get the error message.
If the above solution doesn’t work, try iommu=soft instead.
This is on 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 with an AMD Turion x2 processor and ATI chipset / graphics. Acer Aspire 5100 series.
Flash 10 64bit Linux Alpha
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!
Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 Suspend
Laptop,
Acer Aspire 5102 wlmi
4 GB RAM
120 GB Harddrive
And suspend to ram is finally working!
had to add this little file to /etc/pm/config.d/ to get the atheros wifi to get back up when resumed.
/etc/pm/config.d/defaults:
SUSPEND_MODULES=”ath_pci”
that did the trick.
I have installed the fglrx drivers via the System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers application, and I haven’t got the desktop effects enabled due to slower window drawing using these drivers compared to the default ones (ati? / radeon?).
Thanks to paulsiu for the information.
Update:
here is my config files for reference.
/etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module:
/etc/default/acpi-support:
/etc/pm/config.d/defaults:
Also, lspci output:
And lsmod output:
EDIT: fixed typo.
blog moved to wordpress.com
I moved my blog today. It sits now on wordpress.com after many failed attempts to move it to my own server, some weird dns issues probably… I’m not fit to play with it now. In a few weeks my hosting plan will be discontinued and I am either going to change webhosting or do it myself like I did a year back. I am having problems however setting up the server , Ubuntu 8.10 Server on an old Athlon 2600+ box with 512 megs of RAM. Should be enough for apache + mysql. Or is it?
Ubuntu Server 8.10
That swap stuff seems odd, I dunno. But here’s another picture for your wieving pleasure?
free -m