No 64bit Flash Player [updated]
And so it goes, one of the first problems I am running into while using linux is that there is no 64 bit flash player for linux. In fact, there might not be a 64 bit flash player at all. This surprises me. I hear people argue that there just isn’t that much demand for it, but part of the benefit of flash was supposedly its wide adoption and cross-platform availability, giving a developer a way to code without worrying about browser incompatibilities. If nobody on a 64 bit system is going to be able to use it, then that seems like a rather big deal. As far as I can tell, there are no official plans to create a 64 bit version.
What does this mean? No google video in linux, was the first thing I noticed.
[UPDATE] You can actually download the video as an AVI reportedly by pasting the following address in the address bar in mozilla (or by making it a bookmark):
javascript:if(document.getElementById('macdownloadlink')!=null){window.location.href=document.getElementById('macdownloadlink')}else{alert('Go to Google Video to download videos as AVI.')};
[UPDATE2] Also, if you can figure out how to download the FLV file, you can install ffmpeg which comes with ffplay, that can play flv files. It should be possible to write a quick plugin or something to do this easily. Of course, I don’t have time to be bothered with that.
hello!
myself struggeling to get my Radeon 9800 (AGP, of course) to work, even only in clone / mirror, leave alone in Xinemara :-/
however, problems only start occuring after a 1st X session, so i had plenty of times, after using the uninstall.sh and reinstalling the ATI driver from scratch, to get a clean nice fresh start where everything is working as it should, both in clone or in Xinemara;
bottom line: in Xinemara, even with DRI / 3D setup correctly & working, the frame rate drops to a fraction (less then 10%) of what it is in single or clone/mirror mode.
in LostDOS (oups, WinDOwS, that is >:) the performance, calibration or test programs will only work on ONE display at a time.
if you wish to test or need to use 3D, you will have to switch (temporarely) to dual-head clone/mirror.
w/ kind rgds,
mr.c.
ps: don’t do it, unless you are confident you can get your big desktop back (!)
apologies :”>
this post belongs under http://www.warrenfalk.com/blog/2006/04/20/it-works-mostly/ :-
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