Re: Possible bug in USB or HID on asus mobo with via kt266 a chipset

Johannes Erdfelt (johannes@erdfelt.com)
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:38:54 -0400


On Thu, Apr 18, 2002, Michael West <neovorbis@comcast.net> wrote:
> I recently changed motherboards on my linux box and one of my hid
> controllers (a psx-usb converter) stopped functioning correctly. I was
> running a 2.4.18 kernel on both boards, and with the new asus board,
> apps reading from the /dev/input/js0 file seem to halt after the first
> 19 joystick messages are read. I tried reproducing the problem on other
> kernel versions, and experienced the same problem with a smattering of
> previous kernels. I'm using a hid mouse, as well as another hid
> controller, and both work correctly. Not sure if its related or not,
> but I also seem to have some apparent irq problems, as newly plugged in
> usb devices (any) and by that I mean after the usb-uhci or uhci driver
> is loaded, throw "USB device not accepting new address - * (error =
> -110)" errors. The situation in 2.4.19-pre2 changed a bit by completely
> breaking the psx-converter (joydev driver assigns no device) only on
> usb-uhci. pre3 has the same origional problem, as well as 4 and 5.
> Pre6 and Pre7 seem to completely break all usb hid devices. The irq
> (or whatever) problems go away and devices are hotplugged fine, but no
> hid devices are ever registered. Sorry for my infamiliarity with the
> linux kernel source and terminology. Thanks in advance.

Ahh, VIA. Their USB chipsets have some problems. Do you happen to get a
BABBLE sometime before you start getting the error = -110 messages?

JE

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