USB committed to SVN
Date 2007/3/22 23:36:54 | Topic: AROS
| USB initial support
Dr Michal Schulz has made an initial commit of the AROS USB stack, enabling the use of USB mice and creating the foundations to add support, subsequently, also for other devices.
Please notice this is pre-alpha stage software, this means only USB 1.1 UHCI controllers are supported for now, and maybe it won't work correctly on your motherboard. Next thing to develop will be extensions to USBHID class, allowing to use graphic tablets and USB keyboards with AROS, and OHCI controllers support. We must note that support for USB 2.0 EHCI controllers wasn`t defined in bounty Michal is working on. In order to improve functionality and compatibility, huge beta testing is required. So we'd encourage everyone brave enough to help us, to download next days' nightly builds and report any encountered problem. In order to activate the whole stack on UHCI machines, the command is:
C:Loadresource DRIVERS:uhci.hidd
Other news
Nic Andrews has slightly improved AROSTCP, giving us a better (more compatible) network stack. Working VIA Rhine driver (fixed) and test RTL8139 one have been added as well.
Pavel Fedin is still working on improved VESA modes: "Cleaned up VESA mode switch code. Static palette removed, it's not necessary. Mousepointer colors on 256- and 16-color screens are fixed". Also initialising of some old cards with buggy BIOS`es was fixed. He also merged back from MorphOS Trackdisk device. A brand new Trackdisk pref program allow 'no-click' mode of the floppy disk drive without adding arguments to the kernel command line in GRUB.
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