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    SubjectRe: ASUS ScreenDuo
    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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