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Ian Robinson | 1 Dec 2008 03:13
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Firefox 3 PBI problems

I have noticed two problems using the Firefox 3 PBI relating to printing and YouTube. 

I am running PCBSD 7.0.1 i386 on an HP xw8200 (dual Xeon 3.4 GHz) with nVidia card and printing through an HP LaserJet 4+ via tcp/ip and CUPS.

(1)  Sending a print job from a PBI version of firefox 3 crashes the browser immediately.

Kris Moore addressed firefox 3 printing problems back in September 2008 with this solution:

# mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.old
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr

Howver that does not solve the current FF 3.0.3 or FF 3.0.4 downloaded from a PBI. 

The good news is that the printing problem does not exist if you download FF 3.0.4 from ports.

 
(2) YouTube Problems.

a.  YouTube videos cannot repeat.  Also, any attempt to load a second video in the same tab or a different tab results in only a gray video box with no sound or video and a temporary system freeze that makes it impossible to jump to the other programs (like a terminal window). 

You can wait out the freeze or, if you don't want to wait a couple of minutes, you can jump to a console and kill npviewer.bin to restore function.  To enable any kind of play again,  you must leave the browser and restart it.


b.  Another problem involves a problem downloading a YouTube video with the "YouTube Download Tool"  ( http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/ ).    To download a video to your computer, enter the YouTube URL for the video in the box and the video will be downloaded in flv format where you can use VLC or another compatible player to view it.

This problem is not fixed by installing FF3 from ports. 

In contrast, SeaMonkey (from ports) is very well behaved about repeating or loading additional YouTube videos.  No delay, no freeze, no problem. 

Both FF3 and SeaMonkey have the same plug-ins -- npwrapper.libflashplayer.so (Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124) and xineplugin.so (Xine Plugin version 1.0.2,)

Unfortunately, SeaMonkey does not solve the YouTube Download Tool problem.

Ian Robinson
Salem, Ohio



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brian | 1 Dec 2008 15:07
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wine fixed , Flash in FF

 I now have perfect working Steam games ( and other Win32 apps ) with 
wine 1.15 . I can confirm Ian's problems with Firefox and flash . I find it 
somewhat manageable by installing the "quick restart" extension .
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Kris Moore | 1 Dec 2008 15:13

Re: wine fixed , Flash in FF

brian wrote:
>  I now have perfect working Steam games ( and other Win32 apps ) with 
> wine 1.15 . I can confirm Ian's problems with Firefox and flash . I find it 
> somewhat manageable by installing the "quick restart" extension .
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Which steam games are you playing right now? I would love to try out TF2 :)

As for the flash issue, it's known to be a bit unstable right now, since 
it is using a linux plugin, and a wrapper to make it work, which isn't 
always the most stable. However, we are still working on the native 
plugin, and I think it'll go a long ways to fixing these issues.
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Kris Moore | 1 Dec 2008 15:22

Re: Firefox 3 PBI problems

Ian Robinson wrote:
> I have noticed two problems using the Firefox 3 PBI relating to printing and
> YouTube.
> 
> I am running PCBSD 7.0.1 i386 on an HP xw8200 (dual Xeon 3.4 GHz) with
> nVidia card and printing through an HP LaserJet 4+ via tcp/ip and CUPS.
> 
> (1)  Sending a print job from a PBI version of firefox 3 crashes the browser
> immediately.
> 
> Kris Moore addressed firefox 3 printing problems back in September 2008 with
> this solution:
> 
> # mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.old
> # ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr
> 
> Howver that does not solve the current FF 3.0.3 or FF 3.0.4 downloaded from
> a PBI.
> 
> The good news is that the printing problem does not exist if you download FF
> 3.0.4 from ports.

I've just done some testing with FF 3.0.4 PBI, and I can print just fine 
with it, without a crash or anything. What kind of error are you getting 
with FF when it crashes from a print job?
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brian | 1 Dec 2008 16:12
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games

" Which steam games are you playing right now? "

 I currently have installed Doom3 and ROE , RTCW , all Half Life games , 
Quake 3 arena , Peggle Extreme , and Sin1 . Doom is blazing fast and HL 
is slow to start , but works great . I'm getting an error starting 
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stating I have to be administrator to run the game for the 
first time . I'd dearly love to fix this problem , as it's my favorite game by 
a wide margin .
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A.Yerenkow | 2 Dec 2008 01:29
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Re: games

On 01.12.2008 17:12, brian wrote:
> " Which steam games are you playing right now?"
>
>   I currently have installed Doom3 and ROE , RTCW , all Half Life games ,
> Quake 3 arena , Peggle Extreme , and Sin1 . Doom is blazing fast and HL
> is slow to start , but works great . I'm getting an error starting
> S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stating I have to be administrator to run the game for the
> first time . I'd dearly love to fix this problem , as it's my favorite game by
> a wide margin .
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btw, do you have CS:S / CS:1.6 working online?
Maybe we should take your experience and make a wine present in OS twice 
- first one - bleeding cutting edge, for generic stuff, and second - 
only releases which gives most compatibility to games, at least to steam 
ones.
We could manually test second releases, fo rnot-breaking all things.
So we could achieve PC-BSD friendly to gamer sometime :) And that "lone 
guner" will not afraid some day found his system updated and screwed 
with latest wine or whatever.
What do you thikn, guys?
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brian | 2 Dec 2008 01:40
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games

 I haven't tried Counter Strike yet ( been having fun with Urban Terror :) ) . 
I actually just got S.T.A.L.K.E.R. up and running which is something I haven't 
been able to do in Linux . Aside from a few flickers it looks good .  I got it 
running in KDE , but usually run Gnome - so that's probably where the 
permissions problem came from . A Linux version of steam is in the pipeline , 
thank goodness .
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Fabrizio Parrella | 2 Dec 2008 05:42
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Kernel Panic on Wireless + shutdown

While PC-BSD was restarting, I got a kernel panic when I noticed that 
the wireless for my laptop was off and I switched on.

This happened right at the moment when it is testing for the wireless 
card.... I noticed that was showing it as DOWN, I switched ON and got 
the kernel panic.

I tried to replicate the issue but I was not able to.

since then I have been getting random kernel panic when trying to turn 
off the laptop.. I am actually able to know when the panic is coming 
because at shutdown the kernel messages are really slow to appear.. like 
a typewriter effect, and often the very first message looks like that is 
two messages one on top of the other.

please let me know what I should grab next time I see the panic so I can 
post it.

thank you

Fabry
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Rod Clark | 2 Dec 2008 06:52
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Re: Kernel Panic on Wireless + shutdown

Fabrizio,

Do you see "interrupt storm on irq 017" (or whatever irq)
messages as part of this, when wifi starts to stall? That
happens intermittently with my ath0 wifi connection on PC-BSD
and makes wifi unusable for some period of time. This can happen
every few days or sometimes more often. However, on my system it
seems unrelated to startup or shutdown. But I have not seen this
with the same hardware under Linux. The only solution so far
seems to be not to run FreeBSD (6.x) with that wifi card.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Fabrizio Parrella wrote:

> While PC-BSD was restarting, I got a kernel panic when I noticed that
> the wireless for my laptop was off and I switched on.
>
> This happened right at the moment when it is testing for the wireless
> card.... I noticed that was showing it as DOWN, I switched ON and got
> the kernel panic.
> ...
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Fabrizio Parrella | 2 Dec 2008 13:39
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Re: Kernel Panic on Wireless + shutdown

no, I don't think that that is the error... I will be more careful next time and write down the error, th only problem is that when it happens the computer restarts after a few seconds (mainly 'cause it happens on shutdown.. I think)

I start to notice a problem with ACPI as well.. the laptop doesn't shut down completely.. I get the message that says that the computer will be shutdown via ACPI, then the monitor get blank, but the laptop stays on and I have to press the power button for a few seconds to force the shutdown.

what should I do... burn the laptop or try to solve the issues? :-)

Fabry

Rod Clark wrote:
Fabrizio, Do you see "interrupt storm on irq 017" (or whatever irq) messages as part of this, when wifi starts to stall? That happens intermittently with my ath0 wifi connection on PC-BSD and makes wifi unusable for some period of time. This can happen every few days or sometimes more often. However, on my system it seems unrelated to startup or shutdown. But I have not seen this with the same hardware under Linux. The only solution so far seems to be not to run FreeBSD (6.x) with that wifi card. On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Fabrizio Parrella wrote:
While PC-BSD was restarting, I got a kernel panic when I noticed that the wireless for my laptop was off and I switched on. This happened right at the moment when it is testing for the wireless card.... I noticed that was showing it as DOWN, I switched ON and got the kernel panic. ...
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