Re: [osol-discuss] Yet another warning about behaviour on this list

2010-07-15 Thread weknox
What actually bothers me is that this has NOT been a Gabby Goose section, at least not until recently. And, no, not all People have to understand that this is not a technical list. *You* understand it to be a not technical list and it is quite disingenuous, if not dangerous, to assume that

[osol-discuss] OK, please stop now. Was Recent FUD from various camps ...

2010-05-12 Thread weknox
This forum has become rather ugly and not a particularly nice place to visit these days. And as other posters have noted, this forum is now regularly ignored by much of the code writing community because it is too noisy. I first started watching this forum right after the first release in May

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie need HELP

2010-04-08 Thread weknox
Welcome aboard. First off, I was a newbie about 18 mths ago and found these forums extremely helpful, friendly and often very authoritative. In all my years having microsoft or OS/2 stuff I never had a reply to questions from one of their engineers or programmers, though that happens all the

Re: [osol-discuss] I am new and god do i need som help

2009-09-14 Thread weknox
Take a look on http://www.nexenta.org project. Might be easier for you. Don't discourage him! I've been struggling with opensolaris since last summer when I installed the 2008.05 issue. I'm still not sure it's been worth it but jeez I've learned a ton about unix OSes. At home we have a

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade to 118 broke cheese

2009-07-19 Thread weknox
Sorry, I meant to say try typing in: ls -l /dev/video0 not ls -l /dev/video wek...@gramsci:~# ls -l /dev/video0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-06-05 16:11 /dev/video0 - usb/video0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrade to 118 broke cheese

2009-07-19 Thread weknox
What about the output for these commands: isainfo -kv prtdiag -v pfexec scanpci -v ? wek...@gramsci:~# isainfo -kv 64-bit amd64 kernel modules wek...@gramsci:~# prtdiag -v System Configuration: System manufacturer System Product Name BIOS Configuration: Phoenix Technologies, LTD

[osol-discuss] upgrade to 118 broke cheese

2009-07-15 Thread weknox
Cheese was working on 111b, not working after upgrade. Ekiga works fine in both cases. Camera is a logitech QuickCam 3500. Recognized in the device driver utility. wek...@gramsci:~$ cheese ** (cheese:10871): WARNING **: Failed to open /dev/video0: No such file or directory Thanks in

Re: [osol-discuss] weird printer behavior - multiple add printer queue instances

2008-09-26 Thread weknox
After much trial and error I have a printer that works on opensolaris snv_98, an amd_64. There are a few problems that show up, however. 1. The add printer queue pop-up keeps multiplying. There are now about 15 instances that show up when I boot up the machine. Manageable now but,

[osol-discuss] weird printer behavior - multiple add printer queue instances

2008-09-25 Thread weknox
After much trial and error I have a printer that works on opensolaris snv_98, an amd_64. There are a few problems that show up, however. 1. The add printer queue pop-up keeps multiplying. There are now about 15 instances that show up when I boot up the machine. Manageable now but, yikes,