On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:57:38PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > I have a couple of mostly woody boxes. Both have Logitech USB Marble > Trackman for mice. Both mice work well with 2.2.19 kernels. Yesterday > I installed kernel-source-2.4.18 on one of the boxes and built a new > kernel for it. I included all the relevant USB modules when I > configured the kernel. The new kernel boots fine, X and KDE come up > fine, but the Trackman doesn't work. AFAICT, I have the same modules > loaded as with the 2.2. kernel. The only thing I find in dmesg or > kern.log that seem unusual are the following:
2.4.18 was a particularly bad kernel for USB. I'd try again with 2.4.17 or 2.4.19prewhatever. Generally my experience is that my USB mouse and 2.4.keyboard have worked very well (except when using 2.4.18). > My wife is also having usb problems with her Mandrake box running a > 2.4.8 kernel. Are there issues with usb in 2.4? I read everything I > could find about usb in /usr/src/linux/Documentation and poked around > the archives a bit, but didn't find anything specific. The 2.4.8 kernel dates from before I switched to 2.4, so I can't say much about that... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
