On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:41:57PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> I upgraded the kernel to linux-image-3.8-trunk-amd64 from Debian
> experimental and, so far, the video symptoms haven't recurred.

just noticed your reply, hadn't seen it earlier.

have you noticed any oddities with USB on the 3.8 kernel?

the reason i ask is that every debian kernel package i've tried after
linux-headers-3.7-trunk-amd64 3.7.3-1~experimental.1 results in broken
USB support on both my main desktop machine and my mythtv box.

i.e. with 3.7.3, USB works.  >= 3.7.8 it doesn't.

I never tried 3.7.[4567] so i have no idea if they have the problem or
not - i went straight from 3.7.3 to 3.7.8 and then tried 3.8 before
reverting to 3.7.3


this is particularly annoying on the myth box because the tuner cards
are USB-on-a-PCI-card (with a VIA USB chip). the USB keyboard/mouse work
but the tuner cards don't.

on my main desktop machine, the USB keyboard & mouse also work but it
won't recognise a USB HP printer when i plug it in...doesn't even notice
that it has been plugged in.



this may be a complete red-herring, but the only USB thing both machines
have in common is that they both have Dell Multimedia keyboards plugged
into them.  I bought a bunch of them from a swap meet a few years ago
because it was the kb i used at work and i got tired of fat-fingering
the wrong keys when switching between work and home.

they're not bad keyboards, not great but better than the typical cheap
junk keyboards, but I have noticed weird problems with them in the past
(e.g. until recently, maybe 3.2 or 3.5 or the 3.7 kernel, they'd freeze
and need to be unplugged and plugged back in after a reboot...something
in the linux kernel initialisation confused them. it was linux-specific
because my gaming machine which is dual-boot linux & windows 7 had the
problem when booting linux but not booting win7). i think the problems
are due to the weird USB hub they have built in to them.

craig

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craig sanders <[email protected]>
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