[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI experience so far & question

[Albert Lee]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Bob Hoekstra <bob.hoekstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> After the encouragement from Tom Kranz (thanks Tom), I went ahead last
> weekend and upgraded from opensolaris snv_134 to oi_147. So far, no problems
> have come out of the woodwork and all is well. I'm just waiting a while
> before I upgrade zfs to make the change irreversible.
>

Great! Let us know (
https://www.illumos.org/projects/openindiana/issues ) if you encounter
problems.

> I wanted to ask if anyone has any experience with the Acer Crystal Eye
> webcam. This is built into my Laptop (Acer Aspire 5735) and has never worked
> with OpenSolaris. I have googled some users who have got it working with
> Linux. It's a nice-to-have, and before I spend days on a fruitless search,
> perhaps there is someone who knows more than I about this. Any
> comments/advice welcome.
>

Can you provide info about this webcam from 'echo ::prtusb | sudo mdb
-k'? The Acer Crystal Eye in my Aspire One works perfectly, as it is a
standard USB video class device.

-Albert