Black Box While Using Flash on x86_64 Arch Linux
Recently I re-installed Arch Linux onto my Laptop, and upon installing Chromium (9) and copying libflashplayer.so (the Beta that is full x86_64 bit compatible) into ~/.mozilla/plugins I was faced with a Black Box when I tried to play anything that was Flash. However, in about:plugins, flash was installed just fine.
To re-mediate this issue you need to install curl. Here’s what I saw and how I fixed it.
First when I was trying to listen to some Pandora, while whooping ass on Black Ops, I was greeted with this nice black box:
So I installed curl:
And then I got the party started (seriously It was a coincidence that the exact song came up):
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I was trying to get flash working for hours, until i stumbled upon your article. Thanks
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