From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 9 22:21:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C99D816A41A for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 22:21:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A860613C461 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 22:21:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 17762 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2008 22:21:33 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Feb 2008 22:21:32 -0000 Message-ID: <47AE2628.3070500@chuckr.org> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:16:08 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <47ADFD2C.80009@chuckr.org> <200802091951.m19JpJfj096492@fire.js.berklix.net> <47AE0BFA.5030007@chuckr.org> <200802092216.m19MGgte098739@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <200802092216.m19MGgte098739@fire.js.berklix.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: USB Graphic Tablets X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:21:33 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Julian H. Stacey wrote: >>> Chuck Robey wrote: >>>> Well, my first question is, does there exist a tool for USB that let's you >>>> view the raw return from the usb probing? I want to see what this device >>>> is actually identifying itself as. Actual numeric vendor IDs and product >>>> IDs are the sort of thing I'm after. Something a whole lot more detailed >>>> that usbdevs, please. Even the dmesg listing (as I show above) hasn't got >>>> the numbers and tails I need. >>> Hi Chuck, >>> On list sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org (A mostly Linux using >>> crownd though not just, some BSD) They mostly seem to rec. some >>> (free I assume) MS$ comparible .exe prog for snatching USB traffic >>> to then analyse / develop for *IX drivers. I don't remember prog name, >>> but http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >>> Julian >> Thanks much for the URL, I will definitely look it up. I'm a bit surprised >> that the SANE folks, who I took to be scanner-oriented, should be >> interested in graphic tablets. > > Err, they're not far as I know, but they often seem to want to grab > byte streams on scanners to then analyse for Sane. I guess what > one wants to later use the grabbed traffic for doesnt matter, so > long as one has the traffic grabbed for analysis ? Well ... OK, I'm having just a bit of a hard time seeing how that would help me in trying to get my graphic tablet working on FreeBSD for my dear old gimp, but I know darn well you're right more often than I am, so I will give a good look at that list anyhow. > >> Is it a feeling of the usb kernel developers involved that thjey .... > > Maybe current@ or usb@ might know more than hackers@ > Good suggestion, I'll act on it, thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHriYoz62J6PPcoOkRAsfdAJ473iGX+wqmVv29WJ2O9Z8Qj7O3wgCePfH8 dd3BoXE2quZdCs2U2oTF3SA= =dYZc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----