Re: [Sheflug] Opera, Flash, and Linux?

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all :)

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Richard Stevenson wrote:

> I'm trying to view the content of a Cisco CCNA course CD on Linux.  Opera
> 6.1 works better than either Mozilla or Netscape when it comes to viewing
> the different parts of the text, but I can't get the pictures to show up -
> that requires Flash.  I've got the Flash plugin (version 5.0) for Linux;
> Opera's got the netscape plugin wrapper installed and can see the plugin
> (it's listed in the plugins list), and the MIME-type associations look
> correct.  Oh, and plugins are enabled.  I've installed OpenMotif to make
> Netscape plugins work... and still no joy.  It works under both Mozilla
> and Netscape.. so what am I missing?  Has anyone got Flash working with
> Linux?

Weird stuff... I shut down Opera and left it for an hour or so, then
started it up again - and it just worked!?  Some caching thing going on in
memory, perhaps...  So now I just have to find someone to pay for the exam
:P

Cheers

R

-- 
Richard Stevenson
Systems Specialist
Xtra Limited
http://xtra.co.nz


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