General USB problems; was Re: USB mouse stops working intermittently with dmesg errors: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: input irq status -84 received
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Kyuu Eturautti wrote:
and allows the use of a PS/2 or USB keyboard and mice. I had no problems with
any Windows systems and the PS/2 converted but Pure64 could only handle it
once out of three times or so. Haven't tested with other Linux distros than
Debian Pure64.
Is it just me, or is Linux's USB support broken in general in amd64, if
not x86?
If I attach, and then remove a USB audio device (i.e. Labtec headset), 3
out of 4 times (not 100%) my PS/2 (!!!) keyboard stops working until
reboot. Nothing in dmesg, nothing in syslog.
Until 2.6.10, it was routine for Linux to freeze during startup about
every third or fourth boot on some of my machines. I never reliably tied
this to any particular USB peripheral, and only this very most recent
kernel seems to have finally eliminated it.
Grep for USB in kernel changelogs and you get a mountain of stuff in every
minor release...
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