>> > > > a camera, a phone, a usb stick, or whatever gizmos you >> > > > have at home... >> > > >> > > Real plastic and metal plugs only, or bluetooth connections as well? >> > >> > Bluetooth is definitively in scope. >> >> The scope seems worryingly large, to me, on this one. We could talk >> about modems, 3G modems, mice, headsets, webcams, phones running any one >> of a dozen different operating systems (all of which behave and are >> supported - or not - entirely differently), mp3 players, Wiimotes, drum >> kits, steering wheels, video cards (yes, I've got a USB video card >> here), or a zillion other completely different things (all my examples >> are things I actually have lying around my apartment somewhere). There's >> no real unified software layer handling all these cases (well, udev and >> hal probably get involved in most of them, but they're nowhere near the >> whole stack necessary to actually do anything useful), so I'm not sure >> we're going to get much useful focused work done with such a broad >> scope. >> >> sorry to sound like Mr. Negative, just thought it was worth raising my >> concerns! > > Apart from the USB video cards, if you have any of those, feel free to > come around. I saw something a while ago about the DisplayLink (as opposed to DisplayPort) USB Video standard released code/drivers as GPL for linux but I've never seen anything further about it even in my random following of the X mailing lists. I have no idea what the state of the code is but it would be interesting to get support for it as there's a lot of 7 inch USB displays, USB "docks" etc that use the standard. http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/16/displaylink-makes-linux-source-code-available-finally/ Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
