Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "David" == David Roundy <droundy@civet.berkeley.edu> writes:

    David> 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:

    David> 2.4.18 was a particularly bad kernel for USB.  I'd try
    David> again with 2.4.17 or 2.4.19prewhatever.  Generally my
    David> experience is that my USB mouse and 2.4.keyboard have
    David> worked very well (except when using 2.4.18).

While that may be, I'm running the stock Debian 2.4.18-k7 kernel with
a USB keyboard (Belkin) and a Logitech Optical Mouse with wheel. It
works great, but I had to install the hotplug package.

Cheers!
Shyamal


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