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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 12/7/05, sindi keesan <keesan at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> Tonight I took the boot disk and modules to my neighbor's house and he
> plugged in all his USB devices:
> 1)  4-port USB hub (it was recognized)
> 2)  Sandisk Cruzer Micro memory stick - found it as sda1

I have one of these. I believe that you need to mount sda instead of
sda1 so that Windows/DOS will not get confused.

> 3)  Kodak DX3700 camera - found but no active driver for it
> (vend/prod 0x40a/0x530)

This is not a mass storage device. It requires gphoto2. (See the
beginning of this thread.) You will want Slackware 8+ to use it.

> 4)  PDA - not even found

Was it turned on? Did you tell the PDA to sync with the PC?

> 6)  mouse (into the other USB port on the computer) - found it but I think
> we need more modules.  I tried insmodding mousedev.o from your modules.

You also need to mknod (I posted about this earlier).

> How do we enter the vend/prod id during boot or after, if we don't have
> any control over the boot,

mount 1440.img
edit syslinux.cfg

> and are not insmodding usb-storage?

usb-storage does not accept vend/prod ids at runtime, at least in
Linux 2.4.31. You must recompile to add unusual device ids.

You can rmmod usb-storage and insert it again if it is not in use.

> I guess we were incredibly lucky that the first Sandisk CF reader worked,
> and the Olympus SM reader worked, since this Sandisk ZIO does not work,
> with your boot disk (unless you have made serious changes - I only checked
> the first two on the first edition, and this last on the second edition).

Have you tried Slackware? I believe that Linux has very poor support
of unusual usb-storage devices.

I have not made any drastic kernel changes - I just added a few
modules.

> Do you need to insmod serial to use a serial mouse?

Yes.

> (Does serial need some other module inserted first?)

isa-pnp.o if you have a PnP serial card or modem.

> So is printer.o useful only for detecting the printer's existence, or what
> do we do with it?

insmod it, mknod /dev/usblp0 c 180 0, try sending something to it.
First check what type of files it will accept. (maybe PostScript?)
Then send a file of that type with 'cat'.

> So what uses usb-serial?

PDAs, RS-232 adapters, etc.

> >> Z appears to toggle the resolution.
> >
> > It appears to toggle the zoom level for me.
>
> Is this not the same thing?

I think that zooming just resizes the image, but increasing the
resolution does not resize the image.

> Matrox works (surprisingly well) as plain VGA.
> It works even better as chipset VESA.

Does anything you have _not_ work with chipset VESA?

> chipset FBdev does not work with Matrox or Trio3d - mmap error rrr
> Maybe you did not compile it to work with fb and should omit that line.

I think it has FB support. Did you boot in FB mode and mknod fb0? I
will remove the line if framebuffer will not improve compatibility.

David