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Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

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Re: Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

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Post by happyPersonR »

slipknotfan wrote: post #2

A cool thing would be to put a progress bar for something on the lid screen so you can see how long is left and open up the laptop when it is finished.

This might sound kinda campy… but I’d be totally down for something that makes it look like a toaster… haha

Re: Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

If I'm reading correctly, this only uses generic support through the kernel (yay libusb), and actually implements all the interesting stuff in user space. If so, that's fantastic, because it means you don't need to patch the actual kernel, and that's really, really nice. I understand it's not always practical but I do wish as many drivers as were possible were at least initially supported like this, with kernel support later if we really wanted it.

Re: Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

djfergus wrote: post #6

For anyone else who was wondering what this looks like: https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/news/22/12/asus-zenbook-14x... https://fdn.gsmarena.com/imgroot/news/22/12/asus-zenbook-14x...

Thanks, that was weirdly hard for me to search for

Re: Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

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Post by ghrl »

userbinator wrote: post #5

> CLAUDE.md Reverse-engineered and vibe-coded? I've been seeing a lot more projects like this recently; it seems getting an AI to do a lot of the work for you has lowered the barrier to entry.

Yes, certainly. I've heard of people that let an agent run on one machine, point a USB Camera at the target and give the agent ssh access and something like imgsnap (cli webcam command) and then let it run autonomously. The agent can then try all sorts of things and also verify the results without asking the user. I think that's quite a good workflow, giving at least a basic feedback loop for work that can't be tested with just software.

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Post by plantain »

userbinator wrote: post #5

> CLAUDE.md Reverse-engineered and vibe-coded? I've been seeing a lot more projects like this recently; it seems getting an AI to do a lot of the work for you has lowered the barrier to entry.

AI is amazing at reverse engineering, especially if you can give it a live feedback loop.

Re: Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

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Post by dmitrygr »

slipknotfan wrote: post #2

A cool thing would be to put a progress bar for something on the lid screen so you can see how long is left and open up the laptop when it is finished.

Put a battery gauge on there, run MS teams, and watch it drain in realtime.
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