Had to upgrade to AMD64 - shockwave question

Hey guys.

My little Sempron board bit the dust last Saturday and all I could find 
in AMD was of course the 64 bit  boards.  Got one and have been 
installing everything and am having some difficulties here and there.  
One that is bothering me is Shockwave Flash Plaer.  I can no longer use 
straight Mozilla(Seamonkey) as it seems it's not ported to AMD64 so am 
using IceWeasel browser and IceDove for mail.  There is a Shockwave 
plugin loaded in IceWeasel but it's ver. 9 and it seems that most 
everything I'm finding in flash is not working so assume I need the 
newer version, 10.x.x.x.x.x. However I can't figure out how to install 
it.  There is a version that is supposed to install on Ubuntu but I'm 
running straight Debian/AMD64/Lenny/Stable.  The instructions say to 
remove the old version before install the new one.  However the file 
structures are different in waht they are saying to do.

Has anyone gone thru this messs who could help me out?  I found where 
IceWeasel has the plugin hidden but it's not in the `.mozilla/plugins 
directory.   The Flash 9 plugin stuff that is loaded for 
IceWeasel/Firefox is in the /pluginreg.dat directory  way down into the 
subdirectories, under the * .slt  directory.

this is what I've found in the .dat directory:

...
/usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so:$
:$
1225835149000:1:5:$
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r100:$
Shockwave Flash:$

I goofed. AMD64/Flash message...

Oh well.   It was late or early, depending on your point of view.

In my previous email I mentioned I have Flash and gave some info.  That 
is Macromedia's Flash, not Adobe.  It seems I need to install Shockwave, 
Adobe's version to get this mess to work unless I'm totally wrong on 
that.  Will Macromedia's Flash work OK and i just need to tweak it somehow?

TIA.
Whit

Re: Had to upgrade to AMD64 - shockwave question

I'm a little confused here. It kind of sounds like you're trying to rip
out the 32-bit Flash player by brute force. I just installed the 64-bit
player, and unless I'm *totally* senile, I removed it using the Firefox
plugins manager (menu Tools/Add-ons).

The 64-bit Flash component was a single .so file, and I put it in my
$HOME/.mozilla/plugins directory, per instructions. With reservations,
since that wouldn't seem to be appropriate for a multi-user system and
there's system-wide plugin directories. But that's how all the docs
read. Maybe because it's not a production plugin.

As far as internal MIME info etc., to the best of my knowledge, the
plugin manager handles getting that stuff in there.

   Tim

On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 01:14 -0500, Whit Hansell wrote:
> Hey guys.
> 
> My little Sempron board bit the dust last Saturday and all I could find 
> in AMD was of course the 64 bit  boards.  Got one and have been 
> installing everything and am having some difficulties here and there.  
> One that is bothering me is Shockwave Flash Plaer.  I can no longer use 
> straight Mozilla(Seamonkey) as it seems it's not ported to AMD64 so am 
> using IceWeasel browser and IceDove for mail.  There is a Shockwave 
> plugin loaded in IceWeasel but it's ver. 9 and it seems that most 
> everything I'm finding in flash is not working so assume I need the 
> newer version, 10.x.x.x.x.x. However I can't figure out how to install 
> it.  There is a version that is supposed to install on Ubuntu but I'm 
> running straight Debian/AMD64/Lenny/Stable.  The instructions say to 

RE: I goofed. AMD64/Flash message...

> 
> Oh well.   It was late or early, depending on your point of view.
> 
> In my previous email I mentioned I have Flash and gave some 
> info.  That is Macromedia's Flash, not Adobe.  It seems I 
> need to install Shockwave, Adobe's version to get this mess 
> to work unless I'm totally wrong on that.  Will Macromedia's 
> Flash work OK and i just need to tweak it somehow?
> 

Adobe bought Macromedia a coupla years ago.

Some good instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMD64/FirefoxAndPlugins#nspluginwrapper

Re: Had to upgrade to AMD64 - shockwave question

Tim Holloway wrote:
> I'm a little confused here. It kind of sounds like you're trying to rip
> out the 32-bit Flash player by brute force. I just installed the 64-bit
> player, and unless I'm *totally* senile, I removed it using the Firefox
> plugins manager (menu Tools/Add-ons).
>
> The 64-bit Flash component was a single .so file, and I put it in my
> $HOME/.mozilla/plugins directory, per instructions. With reservations,
> since that wouldn't seem to be appropriate for a multi-user system and
> there's system-wide plugin directories. But that's how all the docs
> read. Maybe because it's not a production plugin.
>
> As far as internal MIME info etc., to the best of my knowledge, the
> plugin manager handles getting that stuff in there.
>
>    Tim
>   

Thank  Tim,
Talk about confusion.  I'm a total newbie w. this 64 stuff and so  I'm
sure I don't even know enuf about it all to even ask a decent question.
I have, as they say, been trying to RTFM and have found a lot of old
stuff and some new stuff.  To shorten the story, I did as you did and
just grabbed what I found to be a new version of Shockwave where the
instructions were to decompress it and stick the resulting .so file in
/mozilla/plugins "and pray."
  It seemed the prayers worked cuz I went back to one of the area which
I had been trying to watch a flash video and voila', it all worked just
fine.  It really does not make sense to me that one version,
Macromedia(which I did not remove as you say you did, should be put in

Re: I goofed. AMD64/Flash message...

MW Rathburn wrote:
>> Oh well.   It was late or early, depending on your point of view.
>>
>> In my previous email I mentioned I have Flash and gave some 
>> info.  That is Macromedia's Flash, not Adobe.  It seems I 
>> need to install Shockwave, Adobe's version to get this mess 
>> to work unless I'm totally wrong on that.  Will Macromedia's 
>> Flash work OK and i just need to tweak it somehow?
>>
>>     
>
> Adobe bought Macromedia a coupla years ago.
>
> Some good instructions here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMD64/FirefoxAndPlugins#nspluginwrapper
>
>
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Mike,

Thanks for the reply.  I had no idea that Adobe had bought out 
Macro....   Does that mean that Macromedia stuff should just be removed 
from use or are there still some files out there that need it?

And thanks for the link.  As I had mentioned to Tim in an earlier 
message, I got it working but will  keep your link ready if needed.  I 

Another AMD64 ?? video "mode"s

I don't know, again, if I'm asking the right question but I have been 
all over the place trying to find an anwer to correct this situation.

I did a netinstall of AMD64 to my debian bos - AMD Athlon x2 5200 Asus 
board and I have a Niko LCD monitor attached.  All went well this time 
compared to the first install of the monitor on my older Sempron box.  
Then I got a big white X for a screen saver and stuff and it just wasn't 
right.  Anyway I got it squared away at that time, I don't remember how 
but this tinem as I said, all went well, UNTIL I try to go to a virtual 
terminal (Cntrl/Alt-/F1-F6).  Doing this, I get a black screen and a 
monitor error "out of range".  I have my resolution set to 1024 X 768 
and the monitor is 19".  Of course the native mode of this monitor is in 
a much hightr resolution but I can't see stuff that small.  Again, it's 
at 1024 X 768 60Mhz.  It had been at 75Mhz to see if it made a 
difference.  It didn't and I have no idea what I'm doing anyway as I'm 
in no way qualified in this area of electronics, or any area of 
'lectricity at all other than changing out light switches on the wall.  ;=)

I've googled and found plenty about a problem others had had w. Ubuntu 
and the splash screen not coming up(as I remember)  and then changing 
the  mode in some conf file. 
But my problem is later in the system, after I get KDE all loaded up and 
working fine.  No Virtual Terminal access.  I can get the KDE terminals 
because the backgrounds are white,I guess or for whatever reason, so I 
do have Terminal access, but I do like having the other in case the 
system goes down, I can see to do a shutdown.  Right now I can't.  And 
when I do a reboot or a logout/shutdown, when it goes to report what 
it's doing on shutdown, it is a black screen w. no echo at all.

Again, any help will be appreciated.  TIA  I'll get this thing up to 

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>
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RHEL upgrade

   Any good/bad experiences with upgrading RH vs. installing fresh?  My 
concern is that we are running Oracle 10gR2 on RHEL4.7 and I don't want 
to mess that up.  We need to upgrade to RHEL 5.3 in order to support a 
client our software on that version.

Rob.

Re: RHEL upgrade

Doing a fresh install is considered the best practice.

The ideal way of not messing up the Oracle install is to have the Oracle
home directory on a separate partition/logical volume that would be
unaffected by the install.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM, robert mckennon <robmckennon@...>wrote:

>  Any good/bad experiences with upgrading RH vs. installing fresh?  My
> concern is that we are running Oracle 10gR2 on RHEL4.7 and I don't want to
> mess that up.  We need to upgrade to RHEL 5.3 in order to support a client
> our software on that version.
>
> Rob.
>

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