Comment 250 for bug 192888

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote : Re: [Bug 192888] Re: firefox crashes on flash contents when using libflashsupport

Conn wrote:
> max,
>
> Please read the entire bug report before posting, it's already been
> discussed. The FlashPlayer9Solution page gives instructions to manually
> build the libflashsupport.so library that is *already* part of the
> "libflashsupport" package (that you tell us to remove in the first
> step), so your instructions are redundant.
>
> Flash 9 + libflashsupport = crash
> Flash 9 without libflashsupport + proper asound.conf configuration = no audio
> Flash 10 + libflashsupport = crash
> Flash 10 without libflashsupport + proper asound.conf configuration = works
>
> My previous posts have discussed this and linked to the upstream mailing
> list; Lennart Poettering has even confirmed that Flash 10 works with the
> pcm_pulse plugin. Unfortunately flash 10 has its own quirks, entirely
> independent from PulseAudio. Using a composite manager (compiz, xcompmgr
> etc.) appears to cause some instability for some users (but not all).
>
> If you want an unoffical "fix", then follow my guide here (although it's
> only providing instructions to configure PulseAudio as per upstream's
> "PerfectSetup", and such changes may come to hardy-proposed eventually:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4928900
>
>
You can find Hardy builds of flash 10 for Ubuntu on my PPA. More than
likely you will want to download libflashsupport and flash 10 from that
repo since there will be other things pushed to there and its very
possible gonna break your system. Flash works as expected nothing on
that link ATM is broken.
https://edge.launchpad.net/~gnomefreak/+archive
Remember this is testing and should not have bugs reported against it

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    John Vivirito

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