Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:37:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <199901302337.QAA24443@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990129020703.007cdec0@bugs.us.dell.com> from "Tony Overfield" at Jan 29, 99 02:07:03 am
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> >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
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