unable to install Klash in Konquereror cannot view flash

[Paul Higgins]

On Monday 30 October 2006 10:08, Bill Perrotta wrote:

> If you ask me it's downright
> crippling. Everything works fine if you don't go on the internet But a dual
> boot of os9 or X is a must if internet access is important to have on the
> machine. I've never seen such a stupid problem on intel or amd machines.
> And did adobe just ignore the ppc customers? 

Basically, the answer is yes, for PPC Linux anyway.  They apparently will not 
release any source code and only put out an x86 binary, so unless you're on 
x86, you're SOL.  That's why Kai Staats, the CEO at TerraSoft, put out that 
message to the list re: members making a request to Adobe for a PPC Flash 
player.

However, I have been able to get some Flash working using a plugin for Firefox 
(I posted on this previously).  I may have actually downloaded the x86 Linux 
version--the Adobe site doesn't make it at all clear--but I'm almost positive 
that the .xpt plugin format for the Mozilla browsers (e.g. Firefox) is 
cross-platform.  I copied two different files into two separate locations 
(again, see my post on this), and I'm not really sure whether one or both is 
working.  All I know is that the animations and banners that used to be ugly 
blank space now appear as they should.  I've been able to check this against 
x86 Debian (my work machine), which of course has a dedicated Flash player as 
well as a browser plugin.

> I'm surprised if no one cursed 
> out adobe. And what boggles me even more is in all this time why hasn't the
> open source community come out with a better solution than gnash? aren't
> there hundreds if not thousands of classic ppc users?

Flash isn't the only thing--I've had a lot of problems with RealPlayer and the 
open-source version, Helix Player.  I think I've finally got things working, 
though.  I was thrilled that I could get streaming radio to work.  Multimedia 
is not a strong suit on PPC Linux, unfortunately.  I hope more can be done 
about that.

-PRH