Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ASUS ScreenDuo | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:58:52 +0200 |
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On jeu, 2008-04-03 at 13:04 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > 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.
Maybe it waits for a firmware or something first.
Xav
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