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Can someone confirm that the design of Haiku does NOT support the concept of a general usb device driver as is typically found in Linux or MS Windows?

I gather from looking at the documentation that Haiku is oriented fully in the direction of application program being its own USB device driver and only talking to its device through calls to the USB sub-system rather than opening something like "/dev/usb/mydevice" and making blocking IO requests to a usb device through a provided device driver.

If Haiku does support general device drives, then can someone in the developer community point me to a representative example?

I have QT4 up and running on my system and I thought I'd experiment with porting an app I found

Google "how to port qt apps" and the answer comes back "it's easy! Type qmake ..."

~> qmake
bash: qmake: command not found

~> pkgman install cmd:qmake

*** failed to find a match for "cmd:qmake": Name not found

So I take it there is an alternative to qmake that we are using?

after compiling smplayer according to the INSTALL file without errors it start with too much overhead, and is just unusable.
anyone encountered this problem before? if so how do i patch the src to solve this.

thanks.

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