Re: ASUS ScreenDuo

[david]

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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