[Gnash] Re: Re: gnash only creates blank standalone window.....

[Jonas Wolz]

Rob Savoye wrote:
> Jonas Wolz wrote:
>>
>> I can confirm that: I also got the gnash CVS version compiled on FreeBSD
>> (by manually setting CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to include gtkglext, SDL, ...)
>> and the standalone player works just fine, but the plugin doesn't show up
>> in
>> about:plugins. The only thing that happens  when I go to about:plugins is
>> that gnash-dbg.log gets created (with 0 bytes size).
>> 
>> The same source code works when copied over to a Linux installation and
>> compiled/installed there.
> 
>    Sigh... This is a little difficult to debug remotely since I don't
> have access to a FreeBSD machine. (and it failed to install under Qemu).

Installing FreeBSD 6.1-BETA4 under qemu 0.8.0 worked here (although that
probably doesn't help you much...).

> Guess it's time to dig an old PC out of the shed and try an install on a
> screaming 133Mhz box...  My guess is there is a subtle problem with
> graphics libraries. With a Gtk2 build of Firefox, you want to get the
> gtk-x11-2.0 libraries, I had a similar problem once where I was getting
> the 1.0 libraries at runtime, and got a blank screen.

According to ldd both are using gtk-x11-2.0.

Jonas