mystified Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 I upgraded to 9.2 and upgraded to Opera 7.21 and since then I have not been able to get either flash or java working. I sent a request to premium support three days ago and they haven't responded. I posted on the Opera forum and so far no luck. When I launch opera from cl I get: opera: [java] Disabling java due to potential problems. If you know what you are doing, you can set the environment variable OPERA_FORCE_JAVA_ENABLED to '1' to override this. Start Opera with '-debugjava' argument for more information. so I ran debugjava and got this: opera: [java] There seems to be a preloaded version of Xt. Typical causes for this are the LD_PRELOAD environment variable or that Opera indirectly depends on libXt.so There is a workaround for this problem in the opera startup script that unfortunately triggers this error message. Most likely this message is harmless, and the next message printed is that java is not disabled after all (because of "OPERA_FORCE_JAVA_ENABLED"). If the workaround has failed opera will most likely crash every time it tries to use Java. opera: [java] Disabling java due to potential problems. If you know what you are doing, you can set the environment variable OPERA_FORCE_JAVA_ENABLED to '1' to override this. The actual problems should be described above. I removed everything and renamed my ~/.opera folder, reinstalled and still get the same message. I just bought opera two weeks ago. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Mystified - For the flash-plugin: - When you install the flash-plugin-6.0 ...rpm from our MUB download, it will automatically take care of the dependancy with libstdc++2.10 ...rpm, and install it off cd 3 - When you installed the plugin from the macromedia site, you'll miss this lib. Just install it from the 3.cd I have Opera 7.21 final. ML 9.2 Don't know about java. Haven 't installed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Thanks anna, that solved the flash problem. Now if only I could get java working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Fine. Here is my java suggestions, I just installed it, it works fine: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html I downloaded the version: j2re-1.4_1_05-linux.i586.rpm.bin Installation: cd in a terminal to the dir with the .rpm.bin. Then: $ chmod a+x j2re-1.4_1_05-linux.i586.rpm.bin $ ./j2re-1.4_1_05-linux.i586.rpm.bin su & password # rpm -iv j2re-1.4_1_05-fcs-linux.i586.rpm In Opera: file - preferences - multimedia - enable java java path: /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_05/lib/i386/ Save. Restart Opera. Test with the clock applet here: http://java.sun.com/openstudio/applets/clock.html Hope it works for you too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Or,..Get the MDK RPM from ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/Misc/j2re-1....1-5mdk.i586.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 gggrrhhh, anon --- :shock: 8) :lol: 15:52 - today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 gggrrhhh, anon --- :shock: 8) :lol: 15:52 - today? Yep, 15.52 , :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Anon, shame on me. I always forget to check our download section. Anyway, the problem was that the Opera plugin documentation site still pointed to the 1.3.1 version and not the newer one. I already knew about the invalid path that opera suggests from the Opera forums. I installed anon's rpm and it works fine now. Thanks everyone! grumble, grumble, I'm sending a not so nice note to opera premium :roll: support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 Anon, shame on me. I always forget to check our download section. You mean i have put over 40GB of files there, and you don't use it?? Shame on you indeed. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 I did add the Texstar and PLF ftp sites in my media manager. It's the others I forget to check. I posted the results on the Opera forum and put in a plug for our board and gave a link. :lol: Weird problem now though. The mouseovers for forum and the links buttons on our forum don't show when "off", just the text. The mouseover for "on" works fine. :? Edit okay there's a png problem. .pngs by default are handled by opera. But when I checked the mime type there was no file association so I added it. Still doesn't work. When I view sites like my desktop http://home.satx.rr.com/mystified/img/karamba.png all I get is a black screen. Yes, that's black not blank. And when I sent opera a note I also posted a link to this board saying that I got the help here. I also asked if there was anybody out there since they haven't responded in over 3 days. :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 Finally heard from opera support and found out the problem with images. Plugger had associated itself with all image types which was causing them not to work properly. I had to reset each one to open with Opera. Now I'm just waiting to see what else goes wrong! :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 I just found an answer to an Opera problem I had on some web sites that uses Helvetica and other odd fonts - for example the main mandrake.com site. Opera displays these sites with ugly, not aa fonts. Workaround was to switch to user mode. Now- I found this on the Opera Linux Forum: Edit your ~/.opera/opera6.ini file (while not running Opera) In the section [user Prefs] add this line: Enable Core X Fonts=0 :D {OT -- 250 postings for me -- :P } Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 I had a problem with ugly fonts using the static version. Then I read on the Opera forum to switch to the shared and now they look great. But I'll keep it in mind in case I run into problems. Thanks! (OT congrats!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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