Thanks Larry. I must have missed that bit about using sysctl. That's the bit I was missing Bob On Tuesday 11 April 2006 21:06, Larry Battraw wrote: > On 4/11/06, Bob Lees <bob at diamond.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > I would echo David's original question, is there any reason why the OTG > > mode could not be used to switch from master to slave mode, driven from a > > command or voltage sensing on the 770. After all as has been noted > > elsewhere the 770 needs 5volts supply fed to it when in master mode so > > something in the 770 is already sensing this. > > > > Or put another way why do we have to use flasher to switch USB modes? > > Actually the flasher will force USB host mode all the time, but it's > not necessary. Obviously USB slave mode is the default, but it's a > matter of a single command to make it switch to host mode (until the > next reboot). I created a script that runs every reboot to switch it > into host mode, as it's easier to edit the script on the fly than > reflash when I need slave mode. As I believe has been mentioned > elsewhere, you run the command "echo host > > >/sys/devices/platform/tahvo-usb/otg_mode" (as root) in the terminal > > or a shell script to switch to host mode. Maybe it will make it into > the BT keyboard plugin someday, since everything else seems to be > relocating there :-) > > Larry -- V +44 (0) 1296 747667 F +44 (0) 1296 747557 C +44 (0) 7860 406093 Diamond Consulting Services Ltd Dinton Aylesbury Bucks, HP17 8UG England
