Beagleboard Adobe Flash 10.1 tutorial

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Hi folks!

As some of you have questions how to evaluate Adobe Flash 10.1 Plugin for Firefox on Linux I have created this short how-to.

  1. You have to register and request for the package at TI site using the following link
    http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/adobeflash-a8.html

  2. After you were approved you will be able to download the file
    Flash10.1_Firefox_Plugin-0.4-Linux-x86-Install.bin

Please note that this file is intended to be run at PC (x-86 machine)! I have checked this at Ubuntu 9.10

  1. Change file permitions to 0777
    $> chmod 0777 Flash10.1_Firefox_Plugin-0.4-Linux-x86-Install.bin

  2. Run this executable by the command:
    $> sudo LANG=c ./Flash10.1_Firefox_Plugin-0.4-Linux-x86-Install.bin

here you will see a window (GUI interface) to choose a language. English is the best choice because there are no problems with coding page and actually there is nothing to read there :slight_smile:

  1. Use the default directory suggested by the installer (/usr/local/flash10_ffplugin)
    next->next->finish… The installation is done!

  2. Take a MMC card for the Beagleboard or other Cortex-A8 based system and mount it at your PC
    Here and after I assume to use demo filesystem supplied by Koen Kooi, which you can download from here:
    http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/

  3. Go to firefox directory at MMC card and copy the installed Firefox plugin to the MMC filesystem:

maxx@maxx-desktop:/media/rootfs$ pwd
/media/rootfs
maxx@maxx-desktop:/media/rootfs$ cd ./usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
maxx@maxx-desktop:/media/rootfs/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo cp /usr/local/flash10_ffplugin/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/plugins/libflashplayer.so .

  1. remove or save somewhere current flash lib: libgnashplugin.so

  2. Umount the MMC card and boot Beagleboard with it.

  3. Run Firefox and type in the address field:
    about:plugins

If the plugin is installed correctly you will see amoung others. Now you can visit flash sites like adobe.com

Enjoy! :slight_smile:

best wishes,
Max

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Thanks for this tutorial. But i have one doubt. Is this flash player plugin is built for ARm platform?? i dont think so because you have installed it one x86 platform. I also have this shared object and when i did this
file locate libflashplayer.so
the output was:
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

It says that it is made for x86 platform. So you need sonmething which is made for arm platform then only i think will work on arm.

Did u try this?? is it working?? If it is working then i’ll be wrong somewhere.

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Wrong directory, look in "/usr/local/flash10_ffplugin" which is
default... or whereever you specified..

Regards,

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For somebody who doubts :slight_smile:

maxx@maxx-desktop:/usr/local/flash10_ffplugin/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/plugins$ pwd
/usr/local/flash10_ffplugin/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/plugins
maxx@maxx-desktop:/usr/local/flash10_ffplugin/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/plugins$ file libflashplayer.so
libflashplayer.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

Of course it works!

2010/11/9 Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>

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/usr/local/flash10_ffplugin/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/plugins

Sorry, i was looking for the wrong plugin. :frowning:

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Guys,

I’ve just tested brand new Beagleboard-xM with Adobe Flash 10.1 player running with Firefox. I can say that simple Flash sites work amazing! Well, with usual libgnash I could only see slide-show instead of smooth playback! If the ethernet at xM could be faster than I believe flash sites could load and play faster.

I also want to test this plugin at beagle C3, but unfortunately lost rs232 cable for it :(.

2010/11/9 ABHISHEK SINGH <sabhishek@cdac.in>