Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.

Mark Lord
2008-03-28T02:15:03Z

Mark Lord wrote:
> It is with great reluctance when I attempt moving my main "desktop"
> over to a new kernel version -- because the USB subsystem seems to
> break every single time.
>
> So today I tried 2.6.25-rc7 on it for the first time.
> Not good.
>
> It boots, but just a simple suspend/resume (RAM) was enough to kill it.
> It comes back on resume, with an X desktop again,
> but with no USB functionality -- no mouse.
>
> The keyboard still works, so I dropped to a console and tried:
>
> rmmod usbhid
> insmod usbhid
>
> And the console hung at 100% CPU on the insmod.
> Back to 2.6.24.3 again, for now -- I've got work to do.
>
> The specs of this machine have been posted with great regularity
> in the past, every new kernel revision it seems. So here we go again:
>
> Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook, Intel Core2Duo T7400, 2GB SDRAM.
..

Correction there: 3GB of RAM, not 2.