Hi everybody i guess he just forgot to install all the .deb :) Adam gave the headers as well so no need to recompile everytthing
virtualbox working for me with Adams .deb :) thanks again Adam i managed to use my computer during my whole train trip today :) Benoit On 10/29/2010 07:35 PM, K. Posern wrote: > Hi Adam, > Hi Jan, > > Thanks for your feedback on this issue. > > I like the idea of telling people (politely) to > google/bingle/yahoogle... or use the mailing-list archive :) > >> shoot... feet... if we don't support each other. > Because I like the idea of supporting each other ... but after a certain > minimum of self-effort to resolve the problem (e.g. by doing the above > first). > > I can understand that one can get angry about people for just being lazy > and/or thoughtless when posting to a mailing-list. > But it's better to stay polite - agreed :) > I hope my tone was not to harsh. > > Best, > > Knuth > > --- > > On 10/29/2010 05:35 AM, Jan Groth wrote: >> All, >> >> as a reader (not a writer) of this mailinglist, I strongly discourage the >> idea to split up into two separate lists. I like to follow (and benefit >> from) the information the way it is. >> >> I fully support Adam's point: This is not a general Linux forum, BUT if >> unrelated questions do pop up, there's certainly a way to say this is a >> polite and friendly way. Because at the end of the day we (Linux users) are >> shooting in our own feet if we don't support each other. >> >> cheers, >> Jan >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Adam Hill <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>>> I actually have to agree to Norbert. >>> >>> Hmm, I agree with Norbert but I don't agree with the tone. If >>> people are >>> going to get annoyed everytime someone else does something which they don't >>> approve of then maybe they need to go off and form their own society, >>> because >>> it will always happen :(. >>> >>> In defence of Denys, he probably just assumed that it was an issue >>> with >>> my particular kernel, which IS sony z series related and information about >>> it >>> can only be found here. That is obviously an incorrect assumption but for >>> someone who is trying to get Linux running who does not understand the >>> technical stuff ( which is the sort of person that Linux needs to appeal to >>> if >>> it has any hope of mass adoption ) would not necessarily understand that or >>> know where to find the answers. Any mailing list that you care to set up >>> which >>> doesn't have some sort of an examination as a membership qualification will >>> fall foul of the same thing eventually. If people would just play nicely >>> then >>> the world would be a better place... ( Adam gets off his soap box now. ) >>> >>> Let me make it clear though that my kernel is based on a >>> pre-release, and >>> the Intel fixes are also new. This list isn't the place to get support on >>> either, unless you are asking about specific Z series components which do >>> not >>> work AND you have looked on your favourite search engine for the answers >>> first! Then the thread would be about how to get the component working, >>> which >>> is sort of the point of this list :). >>> >>> Denys - VirtualBox DOES work on my kernel because I use it - I >>> thought >>> that the latest VirtualBox had all of the necessary patches included, but >>> search google for "VirtualBox 2.6.36" and you should find the answers. >>> >>> Adam. >>> >>> >>>> And I can add from my perspective: >>>> That it would be nice to not have everybody that tries to install an >>>> UBUNTU system gets full user-support via this mailing list (I am talking >>>> about the cases that took in 10-15 back and forth mails and did not >>>> reveal any /new/ or /updated/ information - except for the newbie trying >>>> to use Ubuntu without reading one of the howtos out there already for >>>> this). >>>> >>>> Norbert: >>>> Maybe the solution is to split off into our own mailing-list? >>>> I could try to organize this. >>>> >>>> Adam: Would you join us? >>>> >>>> Anyway we were all young once... but a bit more rtfm would be nice :) >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Knuth >>>> >>>> --- >>>> >>>> On 10/28/2010 12:05 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: >>>>> On Do, 28 Okt 2010, Denys Pasishnyi wrote: >>>>>> Excuse me! In first email I don't explain good my question. >>>>> >>>>> And even in the second it has nothing to do genuinely with SOny >>> laptops? >>>>> It is just that you don't know how to manage a linux system.. >>>>> >>>>>> Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 2.6.36-0-vaioz cannot be found >>> at >>>>>> /lib/modules/2.6.36-0-vaioz/build or >>> /lib/modules/2.6.36-0-vaioz/source. >>>>> >>>>> Then you have to compile your own kernel with the patches necessary, >>>>> otherwise you will not get virtualbox nor vmware to run, that is life. >>>>> >>>>> Norbert >>>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> Norbert Preining prein...@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, >>> debian.org} >>>>> JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian >>> Developer >>>>> DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 >>> B094 >>>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> DORRIDGE (n.) >>>>> Technical term for one of the lame excuses written in very small print >>>>> on the side of packets of food or washing powder to explain why >>>>> there's hardly anything inside. 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