No time to write a proper e-mail about this now but essentially they said they couldn't talk directly because they're too busy but if we compile a list of questions for them they'll pass them on to the Hercules driver dev team.
So if you can compile a list of relatively specific questions, not like "how does your hardware work?" and so on... then I'll pass it on. Adam On 14/12/2007, Garth Dahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, that's awesome that you got something happening. :D > > I forwarded your progress on to Melanie who still has Alberts MP3 Control > AFAIK... > > I tried going through the hercules tech support site and opening a help > ticket to get some specs / code for their stuff, I got no response at all... > I think Adam was chasing that stuff for a while and also got nowhere. > Hopefully if enough people bug them they will eventually relent and give us > a clue about their hardware. > > -G > > > On Dec 14, 2007 7:35 AM, Robin Sheat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've spent the past week hacking on the Herc, trying to get more than one > LED > > to light (using the HID interface, rather than libdjconsole, still can't > make > > that work). Tonight I finally made real progress! > > > > With a kernel patch (yeah, I know), I can now get multiple LEDs to light. > I > > still have no way to tell which LED is addressed by which number, and > > currently my patch will break every other HID device you might plug in > with > > LEDs, but it's a start, and those are both solvable problems. > > > > If anyone's interested in the technical details, it seems that the HID > part of > > the kernel ignores any LEDs that it doesn't understand the code number > for. > > And the herc reports about 2-dozen LEDs (I think more than it actually > has), > > only one of which the kernel knows about. So I changed the kernel's > mapping > > to map the range the herc reports to LED IDs the kernel does know about. > > > > Also, just to see if it would get anywhere, I asked the company that makes > it > > if they would be willing to reveal the specifications. The first response > was > > that they were 'classified'. So I responded with a slightly snarky email > > about how they shouldn't be, and got a reply that my request was forwarded > to > > their developers. I don't know if anything will come of it, but maybe... > > > > It's not that the specs are particularly complex, just that there is > something > > weird with it, or my understanding of it, that means that I can't make a > > libusb driver work. > > > > So, if anyone has a hercules DJ control MP3, and is either running the > latest > > Ubuntu (so, has a kernel that matches mine) or is willing to do a little > bit > > of kernel hacking, I may have a solution soon :) > > > > -- > > Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JabberID: < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est? > > > > PGP Key 0xA99CEB6D = 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > > It's the best place to buy or sell services > > for just about anything Open Source. > > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > > _______________________________________________ > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Mixxx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
