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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:17:39 +1200
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> > I've tried a newer libXm and that did not fix it.
> > In fact I'm not sure that libXm is the problem.
> > It is more likely that libX11R6.so.6 is the issue, 
> > but that is not an easy upgrade (since so many other
> > things depend on it).  I'll have a play with this
> > today and see if I can find a (relatively) simple
> > fix.
> 
> There's no easy fix. The only way I could get SWflash 
> to work was by doing a complete upgrade of the X libraries.  
> However, that killed all the libc5 X binaries, including 
> xinit (startx).  So anybody wanting SWflash on BL3 needs 
> to upgrade both the X libraries and the X binaries (in
> addition to the glibc2 upgrade from Slackware 9.0).
> That's a major hassle.  

    And not worth the bother.
 
> I'm not going to worry about this.  Since Opera itself
> runs quite happily of the old X libraries, I'm happy.
> Besides, most SWflash routines are huge resource hogs 
> and not suitable for old PCs. 

   I agree !   I have SWflash running on a SW9.1 distro on another partition, 
so I don't actually need it on BL34.  I was just testing the boundaries, so 
to speak.
 
Regards,
         Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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