On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 08:05:57AM +0000, Dennis den Brok wrote: > Jacob Meuser <[email protected]> wrote: > > there's no usbdevs data for Kyocera product 0x0015. so not getting > > a product name isn't terribly surprising. the device could provide > > this but it isn't required. however, if the product name does get > > printed for a while then the name is no longer printed ... there's > > a problem somewhere. > > Yes, that's what happens. > > > as far as usb devices stopping to work, when this happens, could you > > please send me the output of 'top -S -n 200 | grep usb'? and could > > you provide examples of what 'USB devices seemingly randomly stop > > working' means too? thanks. > > Devices stop working an obvious cause: the USB printer, for instance, > has been on for approximately 24 hours before it stopped working. > Sometimes I start the computer, leave it for half an hour, and when > I return, the USB keyboard does not work anymore (and again, only > the device ID is printed by usbdevs, not the device's name). > > The output of "top -S -n 200 | grep usb" is: > > 8 root 10 0 0K 46M idle usbtsk 0:00 0.00% usbtask > 7 root 10 0 0K 46M idle usbatsk 0:00 0.00% usbatsk > > Thanks, > > Dennis den Brok
interesting. do all devices stop working at the same time (I mean, if one stops working, do they all stop working)? does unplugging and replugging the devices (to a possibly different USB port) make them work again? -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
