On Wednesday 14 July 2010, Greg KH wrote: > 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? It would be great to have this utility included in some package so distributions could include it easily. It could also improve testing and development. But I'm not sure if usbutils is the correct one. It's installed on almost all machines with USB but most of them will never be connected to any USB-controllable monitor. -- Ondrej Zary -- 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
