Flash Player 9 for Linux Beta 2
We have just refreshed the beta of Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux, the current version is now 9.0.21.78. This version fixes several critical issues, especially some of the sound problems should be a thing of the past. So we encourage you to update.
Here is a partial list of bugs which were fixed (GNU/Linux specific, general bugs are mentioned in the labs release notes):
188992 - ALSA 2-second stopper problem
189976 - Leaking X11 connections
183202 - Flash crashes with X COMPOSITE
187715 - Asian characters are not displaying as expceted
187409 - Artifacts when initially playing + video stream freeze when selecting second video clip
189437 - Device text rendering performance is less than optimal
187850 - OS freeze right clicking flash movie after clicking another active link
184706 - browser crashes when trying to run use getters or setters from a different scope
188398 - in all the System.codePage 'FileReference', when user attempts to browse, a CRASH is generated
184549 - Mandriva 2006. Installing libflashplayer.so crashes browser
181584 - GUI not rendering correctly. Green out edges on inner frames.
189254 - wipe effect doesn't look right on components if they have no descenders
187885 - Some part of the image is shown out of panel
188349 - Clipping and Masking is not working correctly for Flex Containers when you scroll Text
187689 - Text can become garbled when window redraws.
188709 - Browser hangs
187490 - Crash accessing flash game
188805 - ALT key does not function in Linux player. (Ubuntu, others?)
188089 - RichTextEditor's formatting are not preserved during cut/copy/paste only in linux player
188997 - Selection copy won't paste into Flash.
186982 - activate, deactivate, mouseLeave events don't get fired when clicking inside/outside the player instance
187170 - caps lock and num lock are detected when flash player instance, or even the browser, does not have focus
187741 - change event not triggered when entering text in text field
If you are using flashsupport.c you should update it since I have removed the ICU dependency. I am currently revising this internally since I have received some great feedback on it. You should see these changes in the next version. Hopefully I'll also be able to finally check this into our public SVN repository at that time, since it really belongs there, not on a random web server, without a correct installation script or working versioning system.
Another update: Please note that this version does NOT work with Opera (nor did 9.0.21.55 btw). We know about it and are working with Opera to resolve it. Some sites might work, but most will eventually display a gray or pink rectangle, meaning that the Flash Player did crash. We know it is a problem with the way X11 is used (if you switch X11 to use synchronous mode it should work).
Also, we do NOT support GTK1 browsers and probably never will. That means any FireFox version older than 1.5 will probably not work and older Mozilla/SeaMonkey versions will also fail. The final version will have a safety check for this and the Flash Player will not try to run at all in this case. Right now you will most likely crash.
Here is a partial list of bugs which were fixed (GNU/Linux specific, general bugs are mentioned in the labs release notes):
188992 - ALSA 2-second stopper problem
189976 - Leaking X11 connections
183202 - Flash crashes with X COMPOSITE
187715 - Asian characters are not displaying as expceted
187409 - Artifacts when initially playing + video stream freeze when selecting second video clip
189437 - Device text rendering performance is less than optimal
187850 - OS freeze right clicking flash movie after clicking another active link
184706 - browser crashes when trying to run use getters or setters from a different scope
188398 - in all the System.codePage 'FileReference', when user attempts to browse, a CRASH is generated
184549 - Mandriva 2006. Installing libflashplayer.so crashes browser
181584 - GUI not rendering correctly. Green out edges on inner frames.
189254 - wipe effect doesn't look right on components if they have no descenders
187885 - Some part of the image is shown out of panel
188349 - Clipping and Masking is not working correctly for Flex Containers when you scroll Text
187689 - Text can become garbled when window redraws.
188709 - Browser hangs
187490 - Crash accessing flash game
188805 - ALT key does not function in Linux player. (Ubuntu, others?)
188089 - RichTextEditor's formatting are not preserved during cut/copy/paste only in linux player
188997 - Selection copy won't paste into Flash.
186982 - activate, deactivate, mouseLeave events don't get fired when clicking inside/outside the player instance
187170 - caps lock and num lock are detected when flash player instance, or even the browser, does not have focus
187741 - change event not triggered when entering text in text field
If you are using flashsupport.c you should update it since I have removed the ICU dependency. I am currently revising this internally since I have received some great feedback on it. You should see these changes in the next version. Hopefully I'll also be able to finally check this into our public SVN repository at that time, since it really belongs there, not on a random web server, without a correct installation script or working versioning system.
Another update: Please note that this version does NOT work with Opera (nor did 9.0.21.55 btw). We know about it and are working with Opera to resolve it. Some sites might work, but most will eventually display a gray or pink rectangle, meaning that the Flash Player did crash. We know it is a problem with the way X11 is used (if you switch X11 to use synchronous mode it should work).
Also, we do NOT support GTK1 browsers and probably never will. That means any FireFox version older than 1.5 will probably not work and older Mozilla/SeaMonkey versions will also fail. The final version will have a safety check for this and the Flash Player will not try to run at all in this case. Right now you will most likely crash.
Labels: linux
posted by Tinic Uro at 5:44 PM
14 Comments:
It seems flashsupport.c is broken in Beta 2.
(And yes, I did get the newest one)
It calls FPX_Init, but never calls FPX_SoundOutput_Open...
Any ideas?
The previous release worked just fine with Firefox 1.0.8 (but it doesn't use GTK1).
Mmm... Firefox 1.0 was gtk2 as well, and I think that Mozilla/Seamonkey has be for a very long time now.
I use the weekly builds of opera..but it seems to work for me fine as long as I don't linger long on heavy flash sites..in which case the browser crashes. Although i was using X Composite so maybe that issue was fixed and now everythings fine? o.O Didn't have time to test it throughly before I left.
It seem that it is not for Linux but for Linux x86... because it does not work with other hardware.
how about producing a native freebsd
binary ?
don't know of anyone that's had a
good experience running earlier
flash player linux bins under the
linuxulator interface.
running ldd on the latest beta
suggests things will be
considerably worse in that respect.
support is no issue, netscape
produced unsupported freebsd bins
for years and they were much appreciated.
really, why hasn't it been done ?
cheers
-paulh
Firefox 1.0 was gtk2 as well
Hello,
This release works very good for me (FC5, Konqueror from KDE-3.5, alsa)
Scrolling a webpage with the wheel doesn't work while the mouse pointer is over a flash control. Does they player trap these events?
Under windows this works fine.
Regards, Joe
Unlike one of the other posters, flashsupport.c worked fairly well for me. Beta 2 is an improvement in sound quality, but I still had issues with sound sputtering occasionally under load. The new flashsupport.c file solved that, but introduced some sync issues in youtube.
When is the FREEBSD version coming out ? FREEBSD also uses X11 and the gcc compiler, so should be a trivial compile, and will help with your penetration.. There are many many many freebsd desktop users out there... Just look at why nvidia bother to provide freebsd-binary drivers for their video cards, and why Opensound do the same with their enhanced audio drivers.
With the new year approaching, will we see a 64-bit version in 2007? Hopefully. Perhaps you have a clue which quarter you will be releasing it?
Although in Mandriva 2006.0 and higher all seems ok with flash 9, i have some problem with a backport of firefox-1.5.0.7 in Mandrake 10.x. When opening a flash enabled page i get the following error :
ALSA lib confmisc.c:550:(snd_determine_driver) could not open control for card 0
ALSA lib conf.c:3459:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib confmisc.c:387:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3459:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib confmisc.c:945:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3459:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:3928:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib pcm.c:1972:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
This error leads me to a linux alsa sound tutorial on linux.com :
An introduction to Linux sound systems and APIs
which states that such a error can be prevented when linking with -lasound :
api (Neutral),By Pingouin (198526) on 2004.08.14 6:10 (#83506)
Compilation must be done with "-lasound" to link the binary to alsa-lib. For example: gcc test.c -o test -lasound
I tried all the devices in /dev/snd/, /dev/dsp, etc.
That way of describing devices in the "everything is a file" way is only used by OSS !! ALSA uses such a notation: type:snd_card,device with:
type which can be hw or plughw,
snd_card: number of the card
device: device number
ex: plughw:0,0. See the ALSA Howto for more informations. [www.suse.de]
Robert
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Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org stock@stokkie.net
I like articles like this. Thanks!
Can't get to the Adobe SVN. But there seems to be a more recent version of flashsupport.c in the CVS repository here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flashsupport/
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