Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: ASUS ScreenDuo |
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On jeu, 2008-04-03 at 15:07 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: >> >>> On jeu, 2008-04-03 at 11:37 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >>>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have an ASUS motherboard with an USB gadget, the ASUS ScreenDUO. It's >>>>> an independant little lcd screen with buttons, apparently it runs some >>>>> kind of OS because it can access the net (e.g. to retrieve RSS) even >>>>> when the computer is off - I guess they mean soft-off. >>>>> >>>>> Well, all that is theory because it's under Vista, which I don't have. >>>>> Under Linux the ScreenDUO is kind-of recognized: it says it's a mass >>>>> storage device, but I can't mount it (the kernel says it's bound to sdc, >>>>> but sdc doesn't exist). >>>>> I'd like to access it. Does anyone know how that thing works ? >>>> >>>> What does usbmon show when you modprobe usb-storage? (The instructions >>>> for usbmon are in the kernel source file Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt.) >> >> ... >> >> The ScreenDUO is reporting that no medium is present. Maybe it needs >> you to insert some sort of flash memory card before it will work as a >> mass-storage device. > > Ah. Apparently it just waits for some driver from the Windows side (no > way to insert anything in there). > I guess it'll just be another useless piece of electronics at home.
for future use, what was it that made everyone decide that this is going to show up as a storage device?
with a screen and buttons I would have guessed a HID of some sort.
David Lang
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