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11/05/06 09:43 - 50ºF - ID#21553
Flash 9 beta and Linux Update
Well, it seems that I stumbled upon a bug that affects how the Flash 9 beta works on the old linux box.
It's a Compaq Presario circa 2001 with an 900 MHz Athlon processor and 378 megs of RAM.
The box's motherboard has onboard sound (via 82C686A/B). Being who I am, I disabled it in the BIOS and used an audio PCI ES1370 SB-compatible card instead.
For some reason, the Flash 9 Beta refuses to work with the ES13710 even though Flash 7 did.
On a hunch, I re-enabled the onboard sound and LO and BEHOLD, Flash 9 has sound in Sabayon (Gentoo-based) with firefox 2.0 and even in Elive (Debian) if ALSA is used instead of ESD. Unfortunately, the rendering in Elive using firefox 1.5 is a bit wacky.
The beta also works in SimplyMepis which is Ubuntu-based.
As far as I know Texstar hasn't gotten it work with PCLinuxOS.
The Flash Player 9 beta for Vista, osX, and Linux is available at
It's a Compaq Presario circa 2001 with an 900 MHz Athlon processor and 378 megs of RAM.
The box's motherboard has onboard sound (via 82C686A/B). Being who I am, I disabled it in the BIOS and used an audio PCI ES1370 SB-compatible card instead.
For some reason, the Flash 9 Beta refuses to work with the ES13710 even though Flash 7 did.
On a hunch, I re-enabled the onboard sound and LO and BEHOLD, Flash 9 has sound in Sabayon (Gentoo-based) with firefox 2.0 and even in Elive (Debian) if ALSA is used instead of ESD. Unfortunately, the rendering in Elive using firefox 1.5 is a bit wacky.
The beta also works in SimplyMepis which is Ubuntu-based.
As far as I know Texstar hasn't gotten it work with PCLinuxOS.
The Flash Player 9 beta for Vista, osX, and Linux is available at
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