yeah, i pretty much agree with your opinion of usb. i've had stupid problems with usb devices on the os it's supposed to work on.
i did however, get my usb gamepad working, and i've never had any luck with a regular gamepad (sound card/midi connector). so it was fun to steer around in heretic 2 using a usb device all under linux, but i've wasted countless hours messing with a webcam that only sort of works. i'd just love a way to make use of either my extra hd or my extra cd-rw in a portable way (the interface doesn't concern me). so i'll play around and report back if i get anything working. dave On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Micah Cowan wrote: > > I've been less than impressed with the current state of the USB stuff > - it's gotten very good, but it's still got a few too many bugs for me > to get comfortable with it. It is actively progressing, so it's > entirely possible that the chief problems I'm aware of have been fixed > in the last month and a half... > > My most recent experience with it was in using a USB Mass > Storage Device camera. I could mount it and transfer files from it, > but there was some frequently occuring situation which the drivers > handled incorrectly, resulting in a permanently zombied, unkillable > kernel thread. I couldn't close even close the xterm running the > program which was reading from that mount point. And all further > attempts to access the device would fail. > > -Micah > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
