Re: [Bug-gnash] Gnash 0.8.4, FreeBSD and firefox plugin: browser hangs

[Rob Savoye]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:57:01PM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> [let's try again because the message didn't get through the other lists]
 
  You have to be a member of a gnu.org list to post. This one is special, and
really only used by distributions to report upstream bugs.

> i've been trying to get gnash running on FreeBSD with no luck.
> My setup: FreeBSD HEAD, firefox 2.x, and gnash 0.8.4 compiled with gtk
> support, agg and ffmpeg or gstreamer.

> but whenver i try to open any youtube video, the browser hangs and the
> main window isn't refreshed anymore: if i drag a window over firefox,
> the entire browser window becomes populated with graphic garbage likes
> there's no refresh/repaint().

  I don't see this problem on my FreeBSD machine, so I assume there is a weird
bug in X11. At one point on sme BSDs, there was a bug in the atk library that
did this exact same thing. What version of FreeBSD are you running ?

        - rob -