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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Brian McGroarty <brian@mcgroarty.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB KVM breaks under 2.6.0
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:50:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116005041.GG23253@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040114064032.GA3247@mcgroarty.net>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:40:32AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> I have a Belkin Omniview SE 4, a four port KVM, with keyboard and
> mouse provided to a Linux box via USB.
> 
> Under 2.4.23, the device works well. The keyboard and mouse are
> detected.
> 
> Under 2.6.0 (Debian build), the keyboard is not recognized.
> 
> I have verified that hid and usbkbd are loaded, and if I plug a USB
> keyboard directly into the machine, the keyboard is recognized
> properly.

NEVER use the usbkbd driver, unless you _really_ know what you are
doing.  Please read the config help entry for that item.

> /proc/bus/usb is empty -- with 2.4, I would have gone there to verify
> that the device was seen. Is there any data I can pull from 2.6 which
> might help diagnose this?

Did you mount usbfs there?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-16  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-14  6:40 USB KVM breaks under 2.6.0 Brian McGroarty
2004-01-16  0:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-16  5:59   ` Brian McGroarty

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