Flash Issues on old 32 bit pc
Pete Smout
smoutpete at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 18:03:55 UTC 2013
On 29 August 2013 18:55, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 August 2013 18:27, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 29 August 2013 18:22, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the advice.....
>>>
>>> Yes Colin it is 32bit and old 32bit CPU.
>>
>> That was me too, BTW.
>>
>>> Shockwave flash may well be adobe's plugin, still does not mean it
>>> works! I may be confusing myself but I thought that swf was the FOSS
>>> version of flash, which if I am right, I would rather use on
>>> principle.
>>
>> It's rarely used but .swf is the file extension. Normally most Flash
>> animations exist inside web pages, not as separate files in your
>> filesystem; it's fairly normal not to be able to open such a file, as
>> the Flash player is a browser plugin and not a standalone app.
>>
>>> Liam, if I am about to make a disastrous mistake please let me know!
>>> The commands needed to achive your suggested steps are;
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
>>> sudo apt-get purge adobe-flashplugin
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>>> sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-restricted-extras
>>> sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-restricted-extras
>>
>> No, leave them.
>>
>>> now the bit I am uncertain of....
>>>
>>> sudo reboot -fsck -n ??????
>>
>> No.
>>
>> sudo touch /forcefsck
>> such shutdown -r now
>>
>>> then via synaptic install ubuntu-restricted-extras
>>
>> Just adobe-flashplugin should be enough. Leave the rest of them alone.
>>
>>
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>
> Hi,
>
> Nice idea, still no youtube.com !!
>
> I am out of ideas now..... dunno where to go from here?
>
> I now get the black box where flash video should be, when
> right-clicking on the 'player' trying to bring up adobe settings to
> disable hardware acceleration nothing shows up? no menu at all not
> even the browsers menu (back, forward, copy, paste etc).
>
> FYI (and mine) it seems I am in error thinking shockwave is different
> to adobe when I had uninstalled and purged adobe-flashplugin I
> restarted ff and no shockwave in the addons! Put adobe-flashplugin
> back, and it reappears! (it is set to always activate)
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Pete Smout.
Hi again....
To follow up with ff running at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nLIa1vrpOo
top shows the plugin container running but zero output in the browser!
See below;
Tasks: 115 total, 3 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 58.9%us, 29.1%sy, 8.6%ni, 2.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si,
Mem: 1025576k total, 931152k used, 94424k free, 78224k buffers
Swap: 1046524k total, 392k used, 1046132k free, 388060k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2711 steve 20 0 1153m 356m 38m S 16.5 35.6 6:14.48 firefox
7710 steve 30 10 0 0 0 R 8.6 0.0 0:00.26 apport
7708 steve 20 0 0 0 0 R 4.3 0.0 0:00.13 plugin-cont
1470 root 20 0 71532 43m 9096 S 3.3 4.3 1:22.00 Xorg
2061 steve 20 0 83600 5196 3320 S 3.3 0.5 0:53.74 conky
1829 steve 20 0 4160 1392 728 S 0.7 0.1 0:03.59 dbus-daemon
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.49 ksoftirqd/0
342 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.28 jbd2/sda1-8
1845 steve 20 0 7508 2416 1788 S 0.3 0.2 0:01.14 xscreensave
7501 steve 20 0 364m 9.8m 8188 S 0.3 1.0 0:00.30 parcellite
7538 steve 20 0 35364 10m 8644 S 0.3 1.1 0:00.51 x-terminal-
1 root 20 0 3660 2020 1268 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.20 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.40 kworker/0:0
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 watchdog/0
steve at steve-desktop-3:~$
PID 7708 is the plugin (?) mmm strange
Pete S
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