On Thursday 23 September 2004 17:55, you wrote:
> Opera needs the motif library for plugins to work properly. lesstif also
> works if it's new enough to implement motif 2 (in some distros the lesstif
> package will do, in others there's a seperate lesstif2 package). That's
> the only problem I've ever run into getting plugins to work in Opera.
> Good luck!
>
> --Nick
Well, that's one possible problem eliminated. I checked and I do have
lesstif installed. Also, acroread works. It's just that when loading a PDF,
Opera fails silently for some reason. It even gives me a nice blank window
to look at. :-)
Vaughn
P.S. I was also trying to get plugins working on the ancient version of
Mozilla that came with Mandrake 8. After installing the Flash plugin, I
managed to disable Mozilla so it starts four processes, all of which hang. I
removed the Flash plugin but the problem remained. Go figure. I downloaded
Firefox but it needs much newer libraries and for reasons I can't explain at
the moment, I cannot upgrade the kernel on this machine. (I've tried, it
experiences mysterious lockups. As I can't afford a new motherboard and/or
RAM at this time, I'm stuck with it. :-( )
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Anyone out there using Opera?
> >
> > I am trying to move my web browsing operations to a newer, faster
> > machine. For historical reasons, I'm running Mandrake 8 - same thing I
> > was running on the older machine.
> >
> > I prefer to use Opera (this is version 7) but can't get the PDF plugin to
> > work. I installed the acrobat 5 version of nppdf.so and added its path
> > in under the plugin configurations. When I access a PDF file, it appears
> > to load the file but never displays it. There are no error messages
> > whatsoever. Is there any way I can make Opera give me more debug info?
> >
> > I couldn't find any reference to this in Opera's FAQ.
> >
> > I also tried a Flash plugin, but that doesn't play either. Macromedia's
> > test page says they don't support Opera. Perhaps I should give it up and
> > go with Mozilla. :-(
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vaughn
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