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
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