X-Git-Url: https://git.ao2.it/libam7xxx.git/blobdiff_plain/fbdfd1400cbe36b7fb6fa0de8ebc382eac666dd3..1caaf22426a7442b45872faf7f9f108d9c66baf0:/README.asciidoc diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc index 8f40a1f..7ccabf6 100644 --- a/README.asciidoc +++ b/README.asciidoc @@ -8,9 +8,12 @@ non-Windows Operating Systems like GNU/Linux or Android/Linux just to name a few, and on non-PC platforms like for instance mobile phones, tablets or game consoles. -The first driver supporting these devices was acerc11xdrv from Reto Schneider: +The first driver supporting these devices was _acerc11xdrv_ from Reto Schneider: https://github.com/rettichschnidi/acerc11xdrv +Another project with the same purpose is _acerc110_ from Thomas Baquet: +https://github.com/lordblackfox/acerc110 + == AM7XXX An overview of some AM7XXX chips (AM7211A AM7212 AM7212P AM7318 AM7213D @@ -21,22 +24,32 @@ is at: http://wenku.baidu.com/view/543c8b4d852458fb770b56ee.html == Supported devices -The devices supported by libam7xxx use USB bulk trasfers and a simple packet +The devices supported by libam7xxx use USB bulk transfers and a simple packet based protocol to exchange data and commands to and from a host system and the AM7XXX chip. -Those with USB VendorID ''1de1'' are devices based on Actions Micro/Action Media -designs, usually having two modes: +Devices based on Actions Micro/Action Media designs generally use the USB +VendorID +1de1+, and they can have two operational modes: + + - USB Mass Storage mode (e.g. ProductID: +1101+) + - Generic bulk data transfer mode, or Display mode (e.g. ProductID: +c101+) - - USB Mass Storage mode (ProductID: ''1101'') - - Generic bulk data transfer mode (ProductID: ''c101'') +On recent GNU/Linux systems the switch from Mass Storage mode to Display mode +is performed automatically by +http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/[USB_ModeSwitch], or can be done +manually with the command: + + $ sudo usb_modeswitch \ + --default-vendor 0x1de1 \ + --default-product 0x1101 \ + --message-content 55534243087052890000000000000cff020000000000000000000000000000 Examples of devices based on AM7XXX are: - - Acer Series C pico projectors (C20 C110 C112 C120): + - Acer Series C pico projectors (C20, C110, C112): * http://www.acer.it/ac/it/IT/content/models/projector-c * http://support.acer.com/product/default.aspx?modelId=3888 - + - Philips/SagemCom PicoPix projectors (PPX 1020, PPX 1230, PPX 1430, PPX 1630): * http://www.philips.co.uk/c/pocket-projector/179840/cat/