Re: adding plugins to web browsers

[Terry Shannon <tgs154-em@yahoo.com>]

My machine is a new-world ppc, iMac 233;  I installed X from the  
sarge release which I believe is an xfree version vs xorg?  During my  
googling I found some threads that indicated the the xorg release may  
work better, but I need to research how to replace xfree with xorg.   
Googling also pointed out setting the depth to 8 which is also  
mentioned when you run dpkg-reconfigure.

I tried rerunning dpkg-reconfigure and deselected all of the  
resolutions with depth set to 24.  I still get the same problem.   
When I put it back to 8, I get the results you indicated, the  
resolution comes up in the highest resolution, but color is limited  
of course.

I found the players, and did some research on downloading packages  
from branches other than stable.  I think I have this figured out.   
I'm now researching how to get the browser jvm defined to support  
applets.  I'll post java questions as I need to keep this thread on  
topic.

Thanks,

Terry


On Mar 12, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Tamas K Papp wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:32:42PM -0500, Terry Shannon wrote:
> > Do the standard plugins exist for the mozilla and other browsers that
> > are installed with Debian?
> >
> > When I look for plugins on the mozilla site (or netscape) they only
> > seem to support the 386 architecture.  How do I get plugins to update
> > the installed browsers?  I've tried to search using aptitude, but I'm
> > not sure if these packages will be in the stable directories or other
> > directories.
>
> Many binary only plugins are not available for linux/ppc.  The mplayer
> plugin plays many formats (package mozilla-mplayer), and there are
> flash plugins (libflash-mozplugin, swf-player).  Opening many tabs
> with flash will be really slow, though.
>
> > My installation of debian went very smoothly.  I booted off an iso
> > image I downloaded and burned and did the rest of the internet.  Took
> > me a long time to get my resolution to do something other than
> > 640X480.  I had to set default depth to 8 instead of 24.  Are there
> > any other solutions to this?
>
> On my machine, enabling no resolutions at all in the configuration
> (using dpkg-reconfigure) selects the maximum resolution available.
> Try this with 24bpp.  Note: when asking for help, please provide more
> detailed information (in this case, at least the machine type and the
> X version).
>
> Best,
>
> Tamas
>
>
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