Installing flash intrepid

Reason: The developers decided to change the way the drivers and cameras work: old drivers before Ubuntu 8. The applications which use the older assumptions have to be provided with the additional compatibility and decoding library. An example of the procedure needed to adjust launching one typical application with the described problem follows.

Check the correct path to "v4l1compat. That script is in charge of running skype ; the new script loads the correct libraries then hands control to the former script.

Picture is Dark 2. Running guvcview from the Menu Sometimes a dark picture will be the result of an incorrectly-selected webcam device. Install guvcview from the universe repository using the following command: sudo apt-get install guvcview Start it from the Applications menu. When the guvcview window opens, select the Video and Files tab. Check that your webcam is listed and selected in the Device: drop-down box.

If it is not selected, click on the appropriate entry. If there seems to be more than one entry for your webcam, try changing which one is selected. Changes made here may be persistent and affect other applications. Well almost all of the, this one solves a lot of libv4l issues with gspca webcam and some other webcams as well.

The stkwebcam doesn't supports all the previous webcams. It is reportedly fixed in Fixing Webcam issues while using Flash since Intrepid If your webcam stopped working in flash-powered streaming sites, for instance like www. Bug in recent version of Adobe flash player In Ubuntu 8.

It seems that recent versions of Adobe flash player the updated ones for Intrepid and Jaunty since June , at least, and probably before also have a bug which doesn't ask the user to grant access to a site when visiting it. Like ustream. The workaround is to grant access to that website by default without attempting to ask you each time. Sugar may also be booted without removing the SD card by holding down the "O" game key while powering up the XO.

It also has the most important power management features of Sugar so the XO can be used like a real laptop with it. The XO cannot hibernate like a normal laptop that would further reduce inactive power consumption compared to deep suspend. However, suspend to ram deep suspend works and results in low power loss while the XO is not in use. Wacom driver for an external USB tablet is not installed.

A 4GB or larger SD card is recommended to provide adequate space for applications and data. An unlocked laptop. If you do not have another computer with a BitTorrent client installed, you can install BitTorrent on the XO under Sugar and use it to download the file.

Open Terminal and type:. Do not attempt to download the file to your XO's internal NAND flash memory, as the file is very large and you're going to have to copy it to a USB device anyway for installation. Caution: It is recommended to copy and paste all of the following commands into Terminal rather than typing them, as mistakes may render your system nonfunctional. Connect the USB drive. The process will fail if the SD card is already inserted. Open Terminal and type.

It may take a few seconds for the USB drive to be noticed. Repeat until it returns a line like this:. Insert the SD card into the slot. All data on the card will be erased by the following commands, so ensure anything important has been saved to another device. After booting into a new system, log in as user olpc with password olpcolpc, and perform final updates:. Click on the Network Manager icon at the bottom panel and select the wireless network you want to use.

You will have to restart Firefox for the changes to take effect. Naturally, you should test the installation. Not surprisingly, the choice of the music clip on Youtube is coincidentally the finest piece of music ever written - Jan Hammer's soul-healing Crockett's Theme from the fabulous Miami Vice series.

Ah, the 80s If, for some reason, your browser does not prompt you to install the missing plugins, you will have to manually download and install them. This can happen if a new version of the Flash Player has just been released - or if you're running a beta version of either your browser or the operating system.

For example, Firefox in Ubuntu 8. The solution is to head to the vendor's website and download the package, in this case a Debian.

I'll demonstrate with Adobe Flash Player Debian packages, for all practical purposes, are identical to Windows. Double-click, provide your password and follow on-screen instructions, if any. In this case, just wait for the installer to finish. This may sound frightening, but it is quite simple, too.

You will have to download a file, extract the archive and then run the installer. Extracting a tar. The next step differs from a typical Windows installation in that you will have to run the installer contained in the extracted archive by typing into the command line. Do not let this frighten you.