On Nov 15, 2007 3:23 PM, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > André Costa wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2007 2:37 PM, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> David Boles wrote: > >> > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>> André Costa wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Nov 15, 2007 12:21 PM, André Costa <blueser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Hi Jouk, > >>>>> > >>>>> On Nov 15, 2007 11:31 AM, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen > >>>>> <joukj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> Andre wrote on 15-NOV-2007 13:39:22.26 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> My problem now is Mozilla plugins: Adobe Flash player doesn't work > >>>>>>> (nspluginwrapper fails to, well, wrap it, for some reason), and > >>>>>>> mplayer plugin downloads the whole movie but doesn't play it. If I > >>>>>>> save the movie and play it directly with either xine or mplayer it > >>>>>>> plays just fine (I tried with some trailers from > >>>>>>> http://www.apple.com/trailers) > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Maybe it is the same problem as I had yesterday with internet radio > >>>>>> broadcasts : > >>>>>> -Look for which application is realy trying to play the movie. I guess it > >>>>>> is not the mplayer plugin but a libtotem plugin. If that is the case, > >>>>>> remove the plugin from /usr/lib64/mozilla/ directory and let the "real" > >>>>>> mplayer plugin do its work > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> Thks for the tip, but unfortunatelly that was not the case... > >>>>> > >>>>> Regards, > >>>>> > >>>>> Andre > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Well, don't know if it's the proper way to solve this, but once I > >>>> replaced firefox.x86_64 with firefox.i386 (the same goes for > >>>> mplayerplug-in), and removed nspluginwrapper, all started working > >>>> again. > >>>> > >>>> The only (considerable) downside to it is that yelp depends on > >>>> firefox.x86_64, but so far I chose to lose it in favor of the 32bits > >>>> version of Firefox (I guess I could install 32bit version of yelp, but > >>>> I'm afraid it would demand tons of 32bit libs that I don't want laying > >>>> around). > >>>> > >>>> If anyone knows a better way of doing this (that would not force me to > >>>> remove yelp), please advise. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> You did not have to remove the 64-bit Firefox. Just change the menu to > >>> point to the 32-bit Firefox. > >>> > >>> - -- > >>> > >>> > >>> David > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > >>> > >>> iD8DBQFHPGoFAO0wNI1X4QERAp8wAJ4z086La2YcbpY0glIt/+6QPY7+CACePPED > >>> 5hKMUZ7JOnLCeQi+xg7qVdA= > >>> =35TP > >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> In the run application prompt you can use "firefox" for 64bit and > >> "firefox-32" for the 32 bit. That way you can keep both on your system. > >> > > > > Hi Greg and David, thks for your tips. > > > > AFAICS there's no such a thing as "firefox-32" or anything like it. > > Just to make sure I reinstalled firefox.x86_64 alongside with .i386 > > version, and the only thing I get is /usr/bin/firefox, which is a bash > > script that will run 64bit version if it is available: > > > > ... > > ## > > ## Variables > > ## > > MOZ_ARCH=$(uname -m) > > case $MOZ_ARCH in > > x86_64 | ia64 | s390 ) > > MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64" > > SECONDARY_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib" > > ;; > > * ) > > MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib" > > SECONDARY_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64" > > ;; > > esac > > > > Since "uname -m" returns x86_64, this is the version that's always chosen. > > > > I could of course execute /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9/firefox-bin > > directly, but everytime I upgrade firefox I will have to fix this > > reference. > > > > Am I missing something? > > > > Regards, > > > > Andre > > > > > This is how I installed 32-bit Firefox: > http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/ff32-on-x86_64/ > > I then followed this to get flash working: > http://fedorasolved.org/browser-solutions/flash/ > > Hope this helps, > > gs Hi Greg, it sure did =) I didn't know about firefox-32 package, it really did the trick. Now I have both 32 and 64 bits installed, and I am able to choose which one I want to run. Thks a lot =) Also, thks for the links, lots of cool info there. Regards, Andre
