Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:57:38PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote:
> I have a couple of mostly woody boxes. Both have Logitech USB Marble
> Trackman for mice. Both mice work well with 2.2.19 kernels. Yesterday
> I installed kernel-source-2.4.18 on one of the boxes and built a new
> kernel for it. I included all the relevant USB modules when I
> configured the kernel. The new kernel boots fine, X and KDE come up
> fine, but the Trackman doesn't work. AFAICT, I have the same modules
> loaded as with the 2.2. kernel. The only thing I find in dmesg or
> kern.log that seem unusual are the following:
2.4.18 was a particularly bad kernel for USB. I'd try again with 2.4.17 or
2.4.19prewhatever. Generally my experience is that my USB mouse and
2.4.keyboard have worked very well (except when using 2.4.18).
> My wife is also having usb problems with her Mandrake box running a
> 2.4.8 kernel. Are there issues with usb in 2.4? I read everything I
> could find about usb in /usr/src/linux/Documentation and poked around
> the archives a bit, but didn't find anything specific.
The 2.4.8 kernel dates from before I switched to 2.4, so I can't say much
about that...
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David Roundy
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