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[Jaime Davila]

Yorvik wrote:
> Jaime Davila wrote:
>> Chanchao wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 18:20 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> http://disney.go.com/disneymotion/showcase/index.html
>>>>
>>>> Plays fine here using the flash plugin, in firefox ( Shockwave Flash 
>>>> 7.0r63 )
>>>>
>>>> I would purge any shockwave flash installations, and start again 
>>>> with a clean slate - it *should* work as far as I can see.
>>>>
>>>> Incidentally, I installed flash using the Linux version on their page
>>>
>>> That one plays fine for me too, and I just used Synaptic to get 
>>> whatever's in the repositories. (flash-plugin). Cheers, Chanchao
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I've been quietly reading this thread, since I have the same kind of 
>> trouble. After trying some of the things suggested, I can view the 
>> site above fine. But some others I can't.
>>
>> Could someone try this site, and tell me if it works for them? I still 
>> get a "Flash player required" message.
>>
>> http://broadband.espn.go.com/broadband/EBB2/web/shellMain
>>
>> It's crucial ;-) that I get this to work. You know, with the world cup 
>> starting in two days, and being at work while games are going on... :-)
> 
> Just tried it and same thing as you, Flash 8 required.
> 
> I think this has already been mentioned, I've installed IE under wine
> using http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html to overcome this
> sort of problem.
> 
> - -
> Cheers
> SteVe
> 

Thanks. I had seen that thread before. I was wondering if there was any 
way of getting this to work without installing all that other stuff.

Has adobe released a time line for flash v.9 for Linux?

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Jaime J. Davila
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Hampshire College
School of Cognitive Science
jdavila at hampshire dot edu
http://helios.hampshire.edu/jdavila
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