[solved] Flash & Linux: missing fonts

[vherva]

[I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I thought I'd share
this in case someone
else runs into the same problem.]

I installed the flash-plugin-7.0.25-1 rpm on my Fedora 3 Linux box, and it
worked fine on both
Firefox and Opera. However, most of the fonts were missing. Even the fonts in
the flash settings
dialog were absent.

I tried to debug the problem in just about every imaginable way, but failed.

Finally, I got a tip that someone had cured the problem by installing
gsfonts-x11
package.

I don't have Debian based system, and gsfonts-x11 doesn't seem to be available
for Fedora. I downloaded the gsfonts-x11 tgz from Debian site, and extracted
it.
I took file 'fonts.alias' from it, stuffed it to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
(where I already happened to have urw-fonts), and ran ttmkfdir, mkfontdir and
xset fp rehash.

The Flash fonts now work..

I think Macormedia might want to add a check and/or some helpful error
diagnostic
if fonts are missing to the flash package. (Which fonts does it look for etc).

Another problem I've had is that Flash sound is completely mute on Opera, but
with the
exact same flash.so it works on Firefox. So far I've not found a cure for this.