Flash not working on new PC

[David McGlone]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 6:03:49 pm David Fletcher wrote:
> I've just built a new PC from these (Plus some other!) parts:-
>
> Asus M2N-E SLI Nvidia nForce 500 SLI MCP Socket AM2 8channel audio ATX
> Motherboard
> Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered
> CL5(5-5-5-12) Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket AM2 (2.2GHz) Energy Efficient 1MB L2 Cache
> OEM Processor
> Asus EN6200LE 64MB Turbocache supporting 256MB DDR DVI PCI-E Graphics Card
>
> I've installed Kubuntu Gutsy (not the AMD 64 version) and everything is
> working. Except I can't get flash to work.
>
> I installed Gutsy on an old Toshiba Satellite laptop when it was still
> beta, and flash works fine on that i.e. I can watch youtube with no
> problems.
>
> But on the new AMD machine it just won't work for me. I can't see any
> difference in the package selection. All I get is "Hello you either have
> Javascript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player"
>
> This turns up all over the place on Google but I don't see anything about a
> fix or problem specifically to do with Gutsy.
>
> Can anybody say what's wrong please? It's not hugely important because I'm
> not intending replace my old machine with this new one until Hardy is
> released, but it would be nice to know what's wrong.

are you using konqueror?

-- 
David M.