[27080] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.4.37: firefox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew S Mendelson)
Tue Apr 17 20:05:48 2007
Message-Id: <200704180005.l3I05bEq025288@buglounge1.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:05:37 -0400
From: Andrew S Mendelson <asmendel@mit.edu>
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: 0.00
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: buglounge1.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.4.37
Display type: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 85)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: metacity
What were you trying to do?
Play flash content with text and sound. Unfortunately, the flash 7 plugin installed on Athena is pretty limited, and doesn't really work for this.
What's wrong:
Flash 9.0.31 plugin is available for Linux (not Solaris, unfortunately), at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux. This is supposed to support the stuff that we can see on MacOS/Windows. Yippie!
What should have happened:
Flash 9 should be installed on Linux. Please test it and consider installing it.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/
