Unknown devise
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Sep 3 12:26:05 UTC 2008
Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.
Okay, let me get this straight, you bought something and you don't know
what it does?
Uh, never mind. I'm not sure I even want to know.
This device connects a video(TV) input (analog or digital cable or
satellite, etc) to your desktop/laptop to convert it into an
'Entertainment center'. It does nothing more than make your laptop the
equivalent of a TV/DVR combo.
While I"ve never used one, I'd give it a decent shot of working in
linux. It's not much different than pulling video from a video camera
via USB and dumping it in MPEG-2 format. Although, i'm not sure why
you'd need that with MythTV available.
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Mark Haney
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