Hello, I have some annoying problems with USB support on i386 and amd64. The controller deactivates devices sometimes. This is often the keyboard or mouse while I'm using Xorg. All LEDs and the power is off on the affected device when the problem occurs. Usually I don't get any messages about it in syslog, but this time I was away at the phone for an hour and some messages appeared. usb6: host controller process error After detaching and reattaching my mouse, I also got something that looked like: uhub6: device problem (TIMEOUT) ... That was on amd64. Usually reattaching helps to re-enable the devices, but this time it was totally broken. I don't know the exact message, because I restarted the PC to get my mouse working again and I've seen it accidentally. On i386 I'm losing a Cherry G83 keyboard and Logitech mouse (both USB) attached to a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p. On amd64 platform I have a Logitech G5 Laser mouse that uses a USB port. This is nothing exotic, in my opinion, so I suppose that more people than me must know this problem. I'm using -STABLE on both platforms. I've had this problem already when I installed the PRERELEASES of 7.0. moused is off, because I had problems with X recently that are well-known and already discussed here. I don't know how to describe it further. Anyone else with USB problems here? -- Martin
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Martin <nakal@web.de> wrote:> > Hello, > > I have some annoying problems with USB support on i386 and amd64. The > controller deactivates devices sometimes. This is often the keyboard or > mouse while I'm using Xorg. All LEDs and the power is off on the > affected device when the problem occurs. > > Usually I don't get any messages about it in syslog, but this time I > was away at the phone for an hour and some messages appeared. > > usb6: host controller process error > > After detaching and reattaching my mouse, I also got something that > looked like: > > uhub6: device problem (TIMEOUT) ... > > That was on amd64. Usually reattaching helps to re-enable the devices, > but this time it was totally broken. > > I don't know the exact message, because I restarted the PC to get my > mouse working again and I've seen it accidentally. > > On i386 I'm losing a Cherry G83 keyboard and Logitech mouse (both USB) > attached to a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p. On amd64 platform I have a > Logitech G5 Laser mouse that uses a USB port. This is nothing exotic, > in my opinion, so I suppose that more people than me must know this > problem. > > I'm using -STABLE on both platforms. I've had this problem already when > I installed the PRERELEASES of 7.0. > > moused is off, because I had problems with X recently that are > well-known and already discussed here. I don't know how to describe it > further. > > Anyone else with USB problems here?i386, 7.0 (and PRERELEASE of 7.0), Xorg and Logitech G5 Laser mouse. I have seen the same, or a similar, problem with my mouse a few, maybe 5, times this year. One time I had to reattach the mouse to another usb port, and I believe I had a similar error message (host controller process error). The other times I only had to detach and reattach the mouse in the same usb port. I have not been able to reproduce the problems. -- Joakim Fogelberg
Martin wrote:> [snip] > Anyone else with USB problems here?I had problems getting a USB printer recognized during boot. This does not much resemble your problem, but I also got this message:> uhub6: device problem (TIMEOUT) ...Before asking for help, I decided to try to vary the BIOS settings. It turned out that setting USB Legacy Support to Disabled solved the problem. But I have no idea whether this can cause problems in other connections. I have an ASUS M2A-VM motherboard. I run 7.0-RELEASE. Just wanted to mention it in case BIOS settings might be the reason for someone else's USB problems. -- Tore