On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:58 -0500, James Cornell wrote: > Cristiano Basso wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I have a VAIO VGN-CR131E : > > > > * Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz > > * Ram: 2 GB - DDR2 800MHz > > * HD: 160 GB 5400 rpm (Serial ATA) > > * video card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 > > > > When i installed SXDE, i got sound, video, wired network. But wifi and > > webcam doesnt work. (this on a fresh install...) After that i install > > wifi iwk driver, and its working fine. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Cristiano > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:04 AM, James Cornell <sparcdr at sparcdr.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Michael Li wrote: > >> > >>> John Malone ??: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Bluetooth isn't supported in Solaris yet to my knowledge (I believe > >>>> there's > >>>> support in the works). > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> John, > >>> Can I ask a queston? > >>> If you can play Bluetooth under OpenSolaris, what kind of application, > >>> devices you expect to get support as soon as possible? Can you give a > >>> wish list? > >>> > >>> - Michael > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> laptop-discuss mailing list > >>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >>> > >>> > >> My take is obex file transfer support will be the first. I think the > >> hardest is the audio stack, if we chose to implement it. Windows for > >> example didn't, but personally speaking I love being able to use my > >> bluetooth headset on my notebook under OSX. > >> > >> James > >> _______________________________________________ > >> laptop-discuss mailing list > >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> > >> > Great! Well, webcams generally won't work, support for 99% of them is > basically nil due to the lack of source and necessary legwork to make > them work via reverse engineering.
Not entirely true. The current webcams used these days are UVC compliant in so much they require firmware to be loaded before UVC is loaded. It would be a matter for Sun to licence the firmware for redistribution and them creating a framework to make that firmware loading/unloading possible (as part of the UVC framework). Matthew
