[Bug 495] New: Logitech USB cordless optical trackball no longer works

[Bug 495] New: Logitech USB cordless optical trackball no longer works

[Martin J. Bligh]

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495

           Summary: Logitech USB cordless optical trackball no longer works
    Kernel Version: 2.5.65-bk4
            Status: NEW
          Severity: high
             Owner: greg@kroah.com
         Submitter: davidvh@cox.net


Distribution:

RedHat 8.0

Hardware Environment:

Asus P4S8X motherboard w/ Northwood Pentium 4 2.53GHz
Logitech USB cordless optical trackball

Software Environment:

N/A

Problem Description:

Since 2.5.64, my trackball is no longer working.
On bootup, a single message about a new USB device being found is displayed, but
the typical HID input response never appears and the trackball doesn't work.
I get the below message later:
drivers/usb/core/message.c: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout

Steps to reproduce:

Never works.

Re: [Bug 495] New: Logitech USB cordless optical trackball no longer works

[David van Hoose]

Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495
> 
>            Summary: Logitech USB cordless optical trackball no longer works
>     Kernel Version: 2.5.65-bk4
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: high
>              Owner: greg@kroah.com
>          Submitter: davidvh@cox.net
> 
> 
> Distribution:
> 
> RedHat 8.0
> 
> Hardware Environment:
> 
> Asus P4S8X motherboard w/ Northwood Pentium 4 2.53GHz
> Logitech USB cordless optical trackball
> 
> Software Environment:
> 
> N/A
> 
> Problem Description:
> 
> Since 2.5.64, my trackball is no longer working.
> On bootup, a single message about a new USB device being found is displayed, but
> the typical HID input response never appears and the trackball doesn't work.
> I get the below message later:
> drivers/usb/core/message.c: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> Never works.

I just now figured out what the exact problem is.
It was fixed by changing the ACPI option for Enumeration to yes.
I'm assuming that there is a conflict between ACPI and USB.
That is all that I changed.

Regards,
David