From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 30 18:37:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24918 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:37:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bugs.us.dell.com (bugs.us.dell.com [143.166.169.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24908 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:37:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tony@dell.com) Received: from moth (moth.us.dell.com [143.166.169.152]) by bugs.us.dell.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA11981; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:37:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tony@dell.com) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990130203603.0086aec0@bugs.us.dell.com> X-Sender: tony@bugs.us.dell.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:36:03 -0600 To: Terry Lambert From: Tony Overfield Subject: Re: USB drivers Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199901302337.QAA24443@usr04.primenet.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990129020703.007cdec0@bugs.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:37 PM 1/30/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >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. It sure wasn't the last time I checked.... >Wait... it looks like SGI has a FireWire flat panel... Hmm, I haven't seen that, but I've seen this: ;-) http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1999/january/flatpanel.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message