From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761976AbYDCT7P (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:59:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757607AbYDCT66 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:58:58 -0400 Received: from smtp2e.orange.fr ([80.12.242.111]:53999 "EHLO smtp2e.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757514AbYDCT65 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:58:57 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 7551 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:58:57 EDT X-ME-UUID: 20080403195855818.C7DD17000091@mwinf2e02.orange.fr Subject: Re: ASUS ScreenDuo From: Xavier Bestel To: david@lang.hm Cc: Alan Stern , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1207251545.24007.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:58:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1207252732.24007.5.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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