Newbie questions

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Newbie questions
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 11:08 AM
> >> 2) flash seems to work but
> only somewhat. 

A more descriptive comment on what you mean by "only somewhat"
would be of help to the list in determining just what is not
right with your flash.

Now I have no problem using
> >> firefox or opera. I'm starting to think that this
> is really dependent on
> >> the website itself
> 
It may be the case but flashplugin on Ubuntu does work in
spite of your issues.  See below.

> I have fought this battle and given up. Flash is not open
> source and
> it sucks, end of story. BUT! You can get flash sites to
> work by
> installing MS firefox and then installing MS Flash. I will
> all be
> running under Wine and it will all work. Sady, Ubuntu still
> has some
> holes but they are mostly easily fixed.
> 
True.

> Don't assume that most of your other problems are related.
> THey are
> likely drive problems and each will need its own fix.
> 
Not to be just contradictory, but I have firefox and several 
other browsers using Ubuntu flashplugin and some with the
latest flashplayer from the Adobe site and flash plays well
on all of them.  I've never used wine or ever plan to. The OP 
should post to the list, using a more appropriate exact subject,
and post details of just what he did to install flash, his OS
version any and all error messages playing flash. I don't mean 
to say that flash doesn't have problems in getting it to work
sometimes, I've had mine too, but if the OP post his problem
with the details needed, someone on the list can help to get it
right.  HTH,
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net