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[Karl Larsen]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I have a box that plugs into a USB port which turns on this thing:
>>
>> [179616.248181] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
>> address 3
>> [179616.977704] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> karl at karl-hardy:~$
>>
>> This is dmsg | tail and I have no idea what ehci_hcd is and what it 
>> does, if anything :-)
>>
>> The box is supposed to output video and audio in a MPEG-2 compression 
>> formate. The darn thing will not work on Linux it appears.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>     
>
> You have a box?  A BOX?  Could you be any less specific than that?  What 
> kind of box?  What vendor? How can you say it won't work on linux until 
> you know what it is and does?  'supposed' is not definitive enough to me 
> to tell me anything.
>
> To answer the question you asked (and told the other person trying to 
> help you, that his answer was worthless because of not having it) the 
> ehci is the USB controller interface.  A quick google of EHCI would have 
> told you that.  All this tells you is that a new USB 2.0 device was 
> connected on address 3.  Every USB device will log that in dmesg.
>
> So, as far as I'm concerned, without adequate information, your question 
> is worthless.
>
>
>
>
>   
    Well the problem is when you know what the box is, you can't know 
what it does. The little box says on it:

AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid Ultra USB and then DVD Quality . MPEG-2 
Compression . Vista Ready . Digital TV/Analog TV/FM Radio

It has an input that is for a TV antenna, A "S" connector input, A USB2 
cable to the computer, an IR link to a TV-like controller, and 3 RCA 
female connectors.

    I have a pdf manual which is not much help.


Karl


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