On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:30:05PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: > Hello, > I got a monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 757DFX) controllable by USB port in my > hands - and found no utility to do this in Linux. The MouScreen utility from > Samsung is available only for Windows (and is even very hard to find and > download). > > There are two utilities for Apple Cinema Displays for Linux - actctl and > acdcontrol. The latter also works with 757DFX - but these utilities can only > control brightness. > > So I wrote usbmonctl that's (hopefully) universal for monitors complying to > USB Monitor Control Class Specification: > http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/usbmon10.pdf > > It attempts to detect all available controls and allow the user to change > them. 757DFX has some non-standard controls and also some useless > (non-working) ones. It's likely that other monitors will have some other > quirks. > > usbmonctl uses hiddev device to access the monitor. > > usbmonctl is GPL-licensed and is available at: > http://www.rainbow-software.org/linux/ Nice. Would you want to see this as part of the usbutils package? Or do you want to keep it on its own? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
