[gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard

[gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard

[Frank Peters]

Is anyone having problems with the latest kernel-3.4.4?

After configuring with the same .config file that I used for 3.4.0,
the new 3.4.4 kernel boots but it cannot read the USB keyboard.
Presumably the USB mouse is also affected.

Here are, I believe, the relevant lines from the kernel log for 
the working 3.4.0:

usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 6 ports detected
usb 1-1.1: new low-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
input: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/input/input0
generic-usb 0003:045E:000B.0001: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.1/input0
usb 1-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd


For comparison, the corresponding lines from the 3.4.4 log are:

usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 4, error -110
usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 5, error -110


As I mentioned, the configuration has not changed since 3.4.0.
Unless I am missing some new parameter somewhere the kernel-3.4.4
must be broken.

The only related report that I could find is here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1122440

Can anyone confirm or refute this?

Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard [Solved]

[Frank Peters]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:39:07 -0400
Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> After configuring with the same .config file that I used for 3.4.0,
> the new 3.4.4 kernel boots but it cannot read the USB keyboard.
> Presumably the USB mouse is also affected.
> 

The problem has been traced to a certain configuration parameter.

In the "General setup" options for kernel .config file, there
is an option called "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)."
There is also an associated admonition: "Only use this if you really
know what you are doing."

Since the help descriptions for these options are fairly easy to understand
I decided to manually set some of these options.  For reasons that I 
can't understand this caused the USB problems.  Setting this option
to "No" fixed everything and now the kernel-3.4.4 works nicely.

It would be beneficial if anyone who truly is an "expert" could comment
on how setting these options could wreck the USB system.

Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard

[Hung Dang]

On 07/01/2012 12:39 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
> Is anyone having problems with the latest kernel-3.4.4?
>
> After configuring with the same .config file that I used for 3.4.0,
> the new 3.4.4 kernel boots but it cannot read the USB keyboard.
> Presumably the USB mouse is also affected.
>
> Here are, I believe, the relevant lines from the kernel log for
> the working 3.4.0:
>
> usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
> hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 1-1:1.0: 6 ports detected
> usb 1-1.1: new low-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
> input: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/input/input0
> generic-usb 0003:045E:000B.0001: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.1/input0
> usb 1-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
>
>
> For comparison, the corresponding lines from the 3.4.4 log are:
>
> usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
> usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
> usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
> usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
> usb 1-1: device not accepting address 4, error -110
> usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
> usb 1-1: device not accepting address 5, error -110
>
>
> As I mentioned, the configuration has not changed since 3.4.0.
> Unless I am missing some new parameter somewhere the kernel-3.4.4
> must be broken.
>
> The only related report that I could find is here:
>
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1122440
>
> Can anyone confirm or refute this?
>
> Frank Peters
>
>
Have you rebuilt your x11-drivers? If you haven't please try this 
command emerge `qlist -I -C x11-drivers` then restart X.

Hope this help
Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard

[Frank Peters]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:08:05 -0400
Hung Dang <hungptit@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Have you rebuilt your x11-drivers? If you haven't please try this 
> command emerge `qlist -I -C x11-drivers` then restart X.
> 

Thanks for your reply, but, unfortunately, the x11-drivers have
nothing to do with the USB system.

The problem arose because I manually set some "expert only"
parameters during the kernel configuration.  For reasons that
I can't explain, this messed up the USB system.

Frank Peters

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel-3.4.4 No USB Keyboard [Solved]

[Paul Hartman]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 12:39:07 -0400
> Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> After configuring with the same .config file that I used for 3.4.0,
>> the new 3.4.4 kernel boots but it cannot read the USB keyboard.
>> Presumably the USB mouse is also affected.
>>
>
> The problem has been traced to a certain configuration parameter.
>
> In the "General setup" options for kernel .config file, there
> is an option called "Configure standard kernel features (expert users)."
> There is also an associated admonition: "Only use this if you really
> know what you are doing."
>
> Since the help descriptions for these options are fairly easy to understand
> I decided to manually set some of these options.  For reasons that I
> can't understand this caused the USB problems.  Setting this option
> to "No" fixed everything and now the kernel-3.4.4 works nicely.
>
> It would be beneficial if anyone who truly is an "expert" could comment
> on how setting these options could wreck the USB system.

I am not an expert and don't know about your particular options that
were enabled/disabled, but on my laptop I had to ensure the USB
modules were loaded in a certain order. In my case my laptop supports
EHCI and UHCI, but I had to set EHCI as built-in and UHCI as module
(or I probably could have just blacklisted UHCI). Basically, if UHCI
got loaded first it would cause strangeness.