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qylvaran

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Registered: 2006-07-27

Posts: 46

Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

I'm using KDE and I installed flashplugin-7.0.63.0-1 to be used with opera-9.0-2.  After adding /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ to the plugin directories, flash started working.  All text, however, was missing, making it pretty much useless.  I tried konqueror and the same thing happened, so it's not Opera's fault.  What should I do?

EDIT:  While the search function didn't work (is there any forum with one that does?), I scrolled down the page and found a few more posts with exactly the same problem, and also no answer (save for one guy accusing the poster of trying to view a flash9 site when he wasn't).  This does not bode well.

leif_thande

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Registered: 2005-07-09

Posts: 20

Re: Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

I solved this problem on my laptop. First, install ttf-ms-fonts because a lot of flash animations use only Windows fonts.

Also, the path to fonts is hardcoded in the flash binary (that is plain stupid but... heh), so you need to create a symlink to it.

Just follow the procedure listed here  : http://linux.inet.hr/flash_plugin_on_x11r7.html Make sure to use the correct font path for you Arch setup.

qylvaran

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Registered: 2006-07-27

Posts: 46

Re: Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

Thank you for your help, but there is no /etc/X11/fs in my file structure, so I'm having trouble figuring out what directory to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs to.  A little more help, please?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

I solved this problem on my laptop. First, install ttf-ms-fonts because a lot of flash animations use only Windows fonts.

Also, the path to fonts is hardcoded in the flash binary (that is plain stupid but... heh), so you need to create a symlink to it.

Just follow the procedure listed here  : http://linux.inet.hr/flash_plugin_on_x11r7.html Make sure to use the correct font path for you Arch setup.

Flashplugin works fine for me on Xorg 7 without any symlinking.

Thank you for your help, but there is no /etc/X11/fs in my file structure, so I'm having trouble figuring out what directory to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs to. A little more help, please?

"/etc/X11/fs" does not and should not exist on an Arch install.

qylvaran

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Registered: 2006-07-27

Posts: 46

Re: Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

Flashplugin works fine for me on Xorg 7 without any symlinking.

I'm so happy for you.  It doesn't work for me and at least two other people on these forums, though, so unless you have some advice, go away.

I'm sorry for being so blunt, but your post is completely useless and annoying.

qylvaran

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Registered: 2006-07-27

Posts: 46

Re: Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

So, does anyone know which folder I should be linking fs to?  I tried slocate /fs/, but that just came up with a bunch of kernel stuff.  Where are the font server configuration files in ArchLinux?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

Sorry, that was stupidly vague of me... Basically Flash should not need symlinking, at all. Uhh, let's see, can you post your xorg.conf?

qylvaran

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Registered: 2006-07-27

Posts: 46

Re: Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

Okay, here you go.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "ati"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "Radeon Mobility U1"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I removed the input device sections and some comments, kept everything else just in case.  I just installed everything recently, so this is pretty much default stuff.

qylvaran

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Registered: 2006-07-27

Posts: 46

Re: Flash is Illiterate [SOLVED]

I figured it out.  The xfs package wasn't installed on my computer, and that was why there was no /etc/X11/fs in my directory structure.  Once I installed it and followed the linked-to instructions, it all worked fine.