Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dunlap, Randy" <> | Subject | RE: [linux-usb] Re: [patch] drivers/usb/usb.c: auto loading of US B | Date | Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:19:31 -0800 |
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Hi-
Are your USB drivers built as modules? Could they have been auto-removed?
Can you try 2.3.34 or 2.3.35-pre-patchX to see if it gives you the same results?
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-----Original Message----- From: water modem [mailto:watermodem@ameritech.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 7:12 PM To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: [linux-usb] Re: [patch] drivers/usb/usb.c: auto loading of USB
A question tangential to this... I have a machine with a USB (Logitech) mouse plugged into a M$ usb keyboard plugged into a Dell. It is running dual boot RH 6.0 with kernel 2.3.33 (usb enabled) and Win98. For RH to work with the keyboard I needed to plug it into the mouse PS/2 port and USB (the kbd PS/2 port is crushed).
After a lot of pain I got it running fine in X (gnome). I went home leaving it at login screen. Came back this morning and I couldn't click or type anything but I could telnet to it. After rebooting, X-Windows no longer worked and I couldn't make the mouse work. (linux sees it) I have seen Win98 loose the mouse too. In Win98 I could reset the mouse by unplugging it and re-plugging it. This didn't work for linux.
I guess I have a lot of questions here.
1) why does usb access seem to time out? A1. Modules could be removed. I don't know about any USB device timeouts.
2) how do I make linux see a usb keyboard without the PS/2 plug? A2. I don't understand your USB cabling setup. Sounds weird to me. That could be why it's not working for long periods of time (why it seems to be unreliable).
3) do I need to do some sort of mknod for the keyboard like I did with the mouse? A3. No.
4) why doesn't X see the mouse anymore? (do I need to repeat the mknod? ) A4. Don't know. You don't need to repeat the mknod (at least I don't have to).
~Randy
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