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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:10:42PM -0400, Michael West 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.

What is your .config for -pre7?  And what does the kernel log say when
your devices are recognized.  And what does /proc/bus/usb/devices say
when your devices are plugged in?

thanks,

greg k-h