No Flash

Okay, I am using Opera 9.23 with openSUSE 10.3.  I downloaded and
installed the Adobe flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm.  When I
type opera:plugins, it shows everything I would think it should,
properly referencing /usr/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so.

Why, then, do I get nothing but a blank, white field where there
should be Flash media playing?  I have tried several sites with
different presentations, but the result is always the same.  It seems
like it should be working, but all I get is a blank, white field.
When I move the mouse over the blank, white field it says "Click to
activate and use this control."  Clicking, of course, accomplishes
nothing.  I am still left with nothing but the blank white field.  Can
anyone help?

Thank you!

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:34:30 -0400, Czouch <czouch430@emailgroups.net>
wrote:

> Okay, I am using Opera 9.23 with openSUSE 10.3.  I downloaded and
> installed the Adobe flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm.  When I
> type opera:plugins, it shows everything I would think it should,
> properly referencing /usr/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so.
> Why, then, do I get nothing but a blank, white field where there
> should be Flash media playing?  I have tried several sites with

I'd try the latest version, 9.50, build 1875.  As long as you don't
try to open the help, I find it's working very well.  Keep in mind it
is an alpha version, so be sure to keep regular backups, just in case.
Always check the known issues, before installing a new alpha version.

See http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Czouch wrote:
> Okay, I am using Opera 9.23 with openSUSE 10.3.  I downloaded and
> installed the Adobe flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm.  

> Why, then, do I get nothing but a blank, white field where there
> should be Flash media playing? 

See:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3162

On Mar 24, 2:42 am, Martin Schlander <martin.schlan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> See:http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3162
>
> Adobe Flash works for me on openSUSE 10.3 with Opera 9.5 beta.

I think there's something else wrong.  I noticed that, after I shut
down X, the following error messages were on the text screen:

Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set
and is UTF-8
Adobe Flash Player: gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY); failed.
Trying to call gtk_init(0,0);

I haven't done that much with environment variables, and that that I
have done was years ago.  Anyone got any idea what this means and how
to fix it?

Thanks!

Czouch <czouch430@emailgroups.net> writes:

> On Mar 24, 2:42 am, Martin Schlander <martin.schlan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> See:http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3162
>>
>> Adobe Flash works for me on openSUSE 10.3 with Opera 9.5 beta.
>
> I think there's something else wrong.  I noticed that, after I shut
> down X, the following error messages were on the text screen:
>
> Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set
> and is UTF-8
> Adobe Flash Player: gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY); failed.
> Trying to call gtk_init(0,0);
>
> I haven't done that much with environment variables, and that that I
> have done was years ago.  Anyone got any idea what this means and how
> to fix it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Czouch

I doubt the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable matter.

Lubos's comments are correct: current flash is written to explicitly
not support opera and konqueror.  We have a (big, hairy) fix for the
problem which will never be backported to 9.2x (much too big and
hairy).  So if you want flash with opera, you need to run a somwhat
older flash (I don't remember how much older), or you need to run
opera 9.5 or later (which is currently in prerelease, I believe).