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[News] Poseidon USB device compatibility listANN.lu
Posted on 26-May-2002 15:53 GMT by Michael Böhmer6 comments
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A first (and very uncomplete) compatibility list of USB devices working with Chris Hodges Poseidon USB stack and E3B's HIGHWAY has been released. As there are far more devices out than we can test, we hope that HIGHWAY users will contribute their working USB devices so we can complete the compatibility list.
A small note on how to contribute own devices is also available.
Poseidon USB device compatibility list : Comment 1 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 27-May-2002 04:25 GMT
Nice to see things working!
I wanted to say something about compatible input APIs, but it looks like that battle's already lost. I was also going to say something about copying the simple extensibility of XFree86's ad-hoc solution for extra buttons and axes, but it's probably better to force developers to use an abstracted API, given needless 'hardware-hitting' seen on other platforms. (Still, if there's a mapping layer beneath the inevitable input API, don't do as X has done by putting the wheel on events 4 and 5 of an unsigned-int size address space!)
Fun with diff -U:
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- <TD VALIGN=TOP> <A HREF="usb-comp">Supported devices</A> </TD>
+ <TD VALIGN=TOP> <A HREF="usb-comp.html">Supported devices</A> </TD>
Poseidon USB device compatibility list : Comment 2 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by José on 27-May-2002 10:33 GMT
Someone make a driver for the HP external USB CD writters!!!
Poseidon USB device compatibility list : Comment 3 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by Chris Hodges on 27-May-2002 17:17 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (José):
This is only a weird *guess*. Don't take anything as verified:
External CD drives and recorders *probably* just use the standard mass storage
device interface on USB. This however, *should* mean, that you'll be able to
read from these drives without any additional driver. And now, I'm really
dreaming: Say there's a driver for the SCSI version of this CD burner in MakeCD
or BurnIT (or something compatible), and say that it uses the same commands,
it actually *might* already work. I'm not sure whether it would be possible
to do use quad speed though. I really would like somebody to test this :)
Poseidon USB device compatibility list : Comment 4 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by José on 27-May-2002 19:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Chris Hodges):
Well, I have one of the those drives. It's an HP USB external CD writter, the 8230 I think. If there was someone next to me with the Sub/Highway I could take over the thing for us to try it out. The probability of that is low though. I'm in Portugal/Algarve by the way...
Poseidon USB device compatibility list : Comment 5 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by den on 27-May-2002 20:26 GMT
tho i wont be using this device, well done to the makers, even just by giving access to wireless mouse/keyboard and usb scanners/cameras/pda`s this is something that may well keep a few amigas in extended use.
Poseidon USB device compatibility list : Comment 6 of 6ANN.lu
Posted by Jaeson Koszarsky on 28-May-2002 18:10 GMT
If Fusion/IFusion could use these USB boards, that would open things up a bit more in terms of supported peripherals. If it doesn't have an Amiga USB driver, you could connect via Mac emulation.
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