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San Bernardino Dentist [Visitor] in response to: Flash 10 for the EEEPC, flash camera support without flashcam

San Bernardino Dentist [Visitor] — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:19:11 +0000

Whew. Thanks ran into some problems and couldn't find a backup. Thanks for putting the original file in a link.

Thejesh GN [Visitor] in response to: Flash 10 for the EEEPC, flash camera support without flashcam

Thejesh GN [Visitor] — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:39:09 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I will try today.

James [Visitor] in response to: Flash 10 for the EEEPC, flash camera support without flashcam

James [Visitor] — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:19:28 +0000

Hurrah! Got cam working on websites. had to manually turn it on with the command:

sudo echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera

It seemed to be on before but read somewhere that for sites to access it you needed to do this command..bye for now and thanks :)

James [Visitor] in response to: Flash 10 for the EEEPC, flash camera support without flashcam

James [Visitor] — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:32:37 +0000

Hello again. I got the flash 10 beta to install using these instructions from the eee forum:
1. Open a terminal and type
Code:

tar -xvzf flashplayer10_install_linux_081108.tar.gz

or copy and paste what I have in the code box smile
This gives you three items:
install_flash_player_10_linux/
install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so
install_flash_player_10_linux/flashplayer-installer

2. Type sudo bash (still in terminal) and the prompt will change so you know you are now a super user
then type
cd install_flash_player_10_linux
3. Last type
cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Close the terminal, start FF and type about:plugins in the address bar and you should now see Flash 10

Phew! However on sites like stickam and 12 second tv, they cannot detect my webcam (before they detected but couldn't connect). Oh well, glad flash is working again anyway.
By the way, I really like your site and its interesting articles.

james [Visitor] in response to: Flash 10 for the EEEPC, flash camera support without flashcam

james [Visitor] — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:16:01 +0000

hello. I have had an asus 4g eee for a couple months now and attempted my first major alteration today, namely to install the flash player 10 beta, so that i could use my webcam on certain sites.
The first thing i did was back up my version of flash 9 using the command:
sudo mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so.old

Then i downloaded the flash 10 beta and using instructions from this and other sites (eee forum and greenhughes) i failed to install it. Problem now is I have no flashplayer at all in my firefox 3 (backed it up but can't re-install old flash, lol, silly me)
Any advice or instructions you can give would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Wayne [Member] in response to: Flash 10 for the EEEPC, flash camera support without flashcam

Wayne [Member] — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:23:56 +0000

Didn't you follow the instructions and back up the original version of libflashplayer.so? If you did then follow the instructions on how to revert to the previous version. If you didn't I have added a a link to the version of libflashplayer.so that came on my EEEPC 701 to the original article.

dealguru [Visitor] in response to: Flash 10 for the EEEPC, flash camera support without flashcam

dealguru [Visitor] — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:49:22 +0000

I tried to download and install adobe flash 10 using your instructions and using adobes directly. Neither work on my eeepc 701, and I keep getting asked to install flash.

Neither works, so it seems that flash 10 doesn't work or isn't recognized on my 701. Now I can't find a way to downgrade my flash to flash 9. Anyone have ideas?

Tom [Visitor] in response to: Flash 10 for the EEEPC, flash camera support without flashcam

Tom [Visitor] — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:15:25 +0000

I tried this, and the same thing happened, that the flashplayer app can't find the camera. With the old flashplayer, it could at least find the camera. In any event, I did the echo command you suggested in a command window, but it didn't turn on the camera (cam still works in ucview). When i did ls /dev/vid* what i see is /dev/video0 (this was from the home/user/ prompt). Any further suggestions?