yossarian

Thanks for the pointer, tyme. I'm gonna take a look at it, looks interesting.

Damn, once in a year (and believe me, I'm complementing myself here) I know the answer, and on this one occasion the user finds the solution in 5 minutes by himself, and then bothers to mention how easy it was.

It is amazing how many go to the trouble of getting the driver from the Nvidia website but don't bother to read the install instructions even when they are right near the downloadable driver.

 

 

Cheers. John.

Hi John,

Ususally I would agree, but this time I don't. I remember trying to install the driver from the nvidia's site. I read all the instructions, but there were a lot of problems, and at the end of the process I found myself stuck. Then someone here told me to install from the repos, and only that solved the problem. I don't know, maybe their instructions are not "generic" enough (for all hardwares, or kernels, or distros).

Try looking for "firefox2.0.0.4" (without the space), or even just "firefox" or "mozilla" and find it among the suggested packages (there are not so many of them).

I don't know if one needs to uninstall FF1 before installing FF2. I do know that when I upgraded my FF, I used the MCC. I just looked for the FF2 and marked it. Maybe in the process of installation FF1 was first uninstalled, though I find it hard to believe. And it all works fine now.

What Linux are you using ??. The path you mention doesn't seem to gel with Mandriva-Spring.

In future do yourself and everyone else a favour by including including such details. It makes it a heck of a lot easier for us to help you when we know where you are coming from.

 

JB

Hi John,

I'm not sure I know what you mean. I too run Mandriva One Spring, and I do see the path System->Pref->Sound->System Beep. Is it what you referred to? Maybe there is a difference between the Mandriva One and the full DVD? Hard for me to believe. Ah! Do you use Gnome? Maybe there is a difference between Gnome and KDE? Sounds more like it, if you asked me.

I think I'm running the 2007 version, I'm not sure, how can I check?

 

edit: I downloaded it last spring or winter, not sure which.

Try Applications -> System -> Configure Your Computer. Type root's password. What is the title you see on the upper frame of the MCC (Mandriva Control Center) window?

I think the pictures we have seen so far are just of prototype models. I'm sure by the time we see eees on store shelves they will have sorted out the looks a little - for example there is a Windows key on the current pictures - I'm sure that'll be gone by the time it goes to market. Hopefully it'll lose some of its other ugliness as well.

I join your wishes.

SoulSe: But does your Powerbook cost 250$? Hell, the cheapest iPhone costs twice as much(!).

I think it's quite clear that Asus didn't try to develop a killer-app. They just tried to keep the price really low. So of course you can find better devices on the market, only not at this price, or even close. I think the expected performance should be somewhat correlated with the cost.

Having that said: regarding the screen, I totally agree it's problematic. I read somewhere it's going to be 640x480 resolution. First of all, it's no good. Second, I don't know if the VGA output will support highr resolutions. And third, I've never run Mandriva on such a low resolution. Has anyone tried it? I guess all the icons and menus become out of proportion, so I'm not sure that in that sense Mandriva will run properly on this machine.

And I totally agree that 7" is too small. My guess is that they had some constrain regarding the design: They couldn't make a smaller keyboard or comuter, so they are limited in how small the device can be. On the other hand they couldn't use a larger screen, maybe because of price and energy considerations. So they decided to use the free space near the screen for the microphones, and it looks really bad. At least they could use white microhones (instead of black) for the white computer!

EDIT: Any idea what it will cost yet?

The last rumor is that it will cost 250$ for 8GB flash (initially it was supposed to cost 200$, but with 4GB flash only).

BTW, most of the rumors I take from here.

You are right, it is not stated in the press release, but I found it in a few places on the web, like this one.

The reason I'm asking is that on on the wiki page it says that it will run Mandriva. So is it tested by Mandriva, or is it one of those cases where it is not recommended to count on wikipedia?

Hey everyone,

For a long time now I put my eyes on the eee pc of Asus. I thought of buying one when it comes to the market (apparently on mid August, cost 200$-250$). The word says that it's going to run Xandros OS, adapted for this specific machine (the GUI is supposed to be more Windows-like for newbies). Does anyone know (or even has a guess) if Mandriva will run on it? Is the Mandriva group working on checking Mandriva's compliance with the HW? I really build on this gadget, with its price and weight I think it's going to be a blow-up, but I'd really like running Mandriva on it.

Greg and dani, thanks also from me. I didn't know those sites, I'm sure I'm going to find them very useful. After I go through some of the stuff I'll probably want to get my hands dirty and try some of the things, and then after I break it down I'll run back and come looking for you to help me. :)

Still no luck. When I click the movie I see the embedded m-player in Firefox writing "Connecting to server..." and then "Stopped". when I click the play button it happens again, but the movie doesn't start.

Greg, I apologize, your remarks look very interesting but I don't feel so well so I didn;t click all the links. I promise to read them thoroughly today and refer to them. I have a feeling it's not a bug but something I did wrong, and I'm going to get into that and try to understand what happened. Thanks a lot for your guidance.

This shouldn't be necessary but I would try this:

Create the directory /home/username/.mozilla/plugins

Copy flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so to this directory

Dani, you solved half of the problem! I can now watch flash streaming video, but other streaming videos I still can't play.

BTW, I still don't understand what went wrong the first time I installed the flash player, but never mind that now.

The dude is very grateful.

Hi malfist,

I'd like to continue orts' line: if you are using Mandriva, the easiest way to install and update software is through the MCC - Mandriva Control Center. You can search there for Firefox 2 and install it very easily.

If you need any more guidance regarding how to do that, let us know.

There is currently no Adobe Shockwave Player for Linux. You can however sign this petition: petitiononline.com

 

Go to beelinetv.com and try to view a 'Media' stream, try the English TV section > Access Sacremento, that should be windows media. Do you have all the codecs installed?

I signed the petition. Thanks.

I tried to watch the streaming video. Still no luck. In the page I get a "Playing..." message and the play button is pressed, but nothing happens, just like with flash movies.

I don't believe it's a codecs issue. I watched all kinds of movie formats (mpg, avi, wmv...) on the computer, never had a problem. I believe the m-player has some sort of a mechanism for identifying when a codec is missing, and then it gets it by itself, but I'm not sure about that.

Yes, I agree with daniewicz. Please check the output of

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins && ls |grep flash

If both the libflashplayer.so and the flashplayer.xpt are there, please go to adobe.com and check that it is installed successfully, and the version is indeed 9.0.48.0.

 

Can you watch any streaming video that isn't flash?

I visited adobe.com, and indeed - there is a problem. I'm told that Adobe flash player version 9.0.48.0 is installed successfully, but the Adobe shockwave player is missing. When I click on it to download the plugin, I get the following message:

Shockwave Player Download Center

We are unable to locate a Web player that matches your platform and browser.

 

ATTENTION NETSCAPE 6 USERS:

 

Note: If you have Netscape 6.0, then please update to Netscape 6.1 before installing the Shockwave Player. To determine what version of Netscape you have, select the "About Communicator" option in your browser's Help Menu. Click here to update your browser to Netscape 6.1.

 

Please visit our table of recommended Web players .

When I go to the table I see shockwave player only for Windows and Mac OS, but none for Linux. So I'm puzzled.

Greg - can you please point me to a site with streaming video which isn't flash-based? Sorry, I just don't know any.

Guys - I appreciate your help very much. Don't give up, I can feel we're almost there! :D

No problem. I ran from a terminal:

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins && ls

and this what I got:

flashplayer.xpt				  mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt*
libflashplayer.so				mplayerplug-in-qt.so*
libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt		mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt*
libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt	  mplayerplug-in-rm.so*
libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt		  mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt*
libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt		mplayerplug-in.so*
libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt  mplayerplug-in-wmp.so*
mplayerplug-in-dvx.so*		   mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt*		  mplayerplug-in.xpt
mplayerplug-in-gmp.so*

Although I see now flashplayer.xpt in usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, still, the video doesn't play. Maybe I need to have a fresh installation of something? I don't even know of what.

OK, I think we are heading somewhere.

Greg, for both commands I got "No such file or directory". I looked in usr/lib, and I found the library "mozilla" (which is odd, because I also have a library called "mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.4", but not one for firefox). in this "mozilla" library I found the library plgins (Ta-Da!), and that is its contents:

libflashplayer.so mplayerplug-in-gmp.xpt*

libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt mplayerplug-in-qt.so*

libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt*

libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt mplayerplug-in-rm.so*

libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt*

libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt mplayerplug-in.so*

mplayerplug-in-dvx.so* mplayerplug-in-wmp.so*

mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt* mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt

mplayerplug-in-gmp.so* mplayerplug-in.xpt

Are we advancing somewhere, or is it my imagination?

Both for Greg2 and daniewicz: I don't have any library called ~/.mozilla/plugins. When I run Greg's command (I hope it's fine I started calling you on first name basis) I get the following message:

bash: cd: /home/username/.mozilla/plugins: No such file or directory

When I look at the libraries in Nautilus all I see is /home/username/.mozilla, and there isn't any plugins library. There is a library called firefox, but this one also doesn't contain any plugins library.

Should I install it? And how? Maybe I should mention that if I look at the installed programs in the MCC, I see the package flash-player-plugin-9.0.48.0-1plf2007.1.i586 is installed.

Do you have both of these files in ~/.mozilla/plugins

 

libflashplayer.so

flashplayer.xpt

 

(flashplayer.xpt provides scripting support for the flash player)

I'm not sure I found the right file. In root/.mozilla/firefox/ I found a file called pluginreg.dat. Is this the file you meant? Here is its contents:

Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.08:$

[PLUGINS]
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so:$
:$
1165619538000:1:5:$
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31:$
Shockwave Flash:$
2
0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$
1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so:$
:$
1171912428000:1:5:$
<a href="http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/">mplayerplug-in</a> 3.35<br><br>Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using <a href="http://mplayerhq.hu">MPlayer</a> <br>JavaScript Enabled and Using GTK2 Widgets<br>:$
mplayerplug-in 3.35:$
24
0:video/mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
1:audio/mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
2:video/x-mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
3:video/x-mpeg2:MPEG2:mpv2,mp2ve:$
4:audio/mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
5:audio/x-mpeg:MPEG:mpg,mpeg:$
6:audio/mpeg2:MPEG audio:mp2:$
7:audio/x-mpeg2:MPEG audio:mp2:$
8:video/mp4:MPEG 4 Video:mp4:$
9:video/3gpp:MPEG 4 Video:mp4,3gp:$
10:application/x-ogg:Ogg Vorbis Media:ogg:$
11:audio/ogg:Ogg Vorbis Audio:ogg:$
12:audio/x-ogg:Ogg Vorbis Audio:ogg:$

As you can see, the first item refers to libflashplayer.so. I couldn't find the file flashplayer.xpt explicitly, also some flash player files are mentioned.

Is it the file you referred to?

Is something missing?

This could be a result of not having the proper graphics card drivers installed? Do you have them installed?

Yes, I installed the Nvidia GeForce 3 - GeForce 4 driver, which I believe fits my card. Furthermore, I have no problem watching a video which is not streaming but runs locally.

I am a KDE user. You must be using Gnome? I wonder if you have a Gnome specific problem?

 

I am sorry, I know that is not of any help to you. Maybe a Gnome person out there can give some feedback regarding their experience with flash video?

Yes, I am a Gnome user. Thanks for the trial, please don't apologize, I appreciate it very much.

If you launch firefox from a terminal and then try to play the video, are there any error messages given?

No, the only message I get is:

GTK Accessibility Module initialized

and then firefox starts smoothly.

BTW, I tried to watch a clip in YouTube via Epiphany. Still doesn't work.