From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 30 15:37:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05545 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:37:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05540 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:37:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05648; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:37:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd005609; Sat Jan 30 16:37:13 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24443; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:37:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199901302337.QAA24443@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: USB drivers To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:37:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990129020703.007cdec0@bugs.us.dell.com> from "Tony Overfield" at Jan 29, 99 02:07:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >It looks like there are about 100 different monitors that do USB > >now, > > Those monitors have USB for controls and for "convenience" hubs, > but the video itself doesn't go over the USB. That's disappointing. I guess we will have to wait for FireWire; talking FireWire to a video chip and memory in a monitor is faster than talking PCI to a card in your computer. Wait... it looks like SGI has a FireWire flat panel... > >So maybe a box with just a power connector, a FW port and a USB hub > >chip (to seperate the "A" and "B" devices). > > > >Maybe I should send this to Tony over at dell... 8-). > > Don't worry, we already have plenty of marketing types that > think up stuff like that all too often. ;-) So, got any engineering prototypes you want to unload for cheap? I'm in the market for a FreeBSD box to beat the Linux small web server record. Maybe a web server on a tie-tack... 8^). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message