On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 9:46:04 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
> On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 9:21:30 PM UTC-4, David Shleifman wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > To: qubes-users <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 4:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: How  to manage multiple USB controllers
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I don't think you really have 6 controllers do you?
> > dom0$ lspci | grep USB
> > returns 6 PCI devices:
> > Bus:Device.Function
> > 
> > 00:12.0 ... SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
> > 
> > 00:12.1 ... SB7x0             USB OHCI1 Controller
> > 
> > 00:12.2 ... SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI  Controller
> > 00:13.0 ... SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
> > 00:13.1 ... SB7x0                         USB OHCI1 Controller
> > 
> > 00:13.2 ... SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI   Controller
> > 
> > 
> > Is it 6 controllers?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On mine I have only two echi's.
> > > one is for the two low speed ports, next to the ps2 port which i use for 
> > > mouse and keyboard, and is assigned to dom0.  The other 
> > 
> > > controller is for everything else I have in sys-usb.
> > 
> > Thanks for sharing your USB topology and controller assignment.   Have you 
> > been able to hide the USB controllers from dom0 as described in 
> > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#creating-and-using-a-usb-qube?  So that 
> > lspci returns an epmty string.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On another machine with xhvi (usb3.0)  everything gets routed through 
> > > that one controller.  the two ehvi controllers get routed through
> > > the usb 3.0 making a single controller not 3.  
> > 
> > 
> > How did you determine that the 2 EHCI(s) are routed through XHCI?  What 
> > does 
> > 
> > dom0$ lspci | grep USB
> > return?  Does it show 3 controllers or one?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > so its either use the two controllers the same way I have on this box 
> > > with xhvi disabled,  
> > 
> > > or enable it then only having a single controller if wanting 3.0 speeds 
> > > (using the qubes input proxy). 
> > 
> > In the later case, XHCI is attached to sys-usb, and 
> > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#attaching-a-single-usb-device-to-a-qube-usb-passthrough
> >  is employed to pass it to dom0. Is my understanding correct?   Are you 
> > able to log in (after the boot) using the USB keyboard?
> 
> again,I use a ps2 keyboard.  i have a little green inch long 99cent - 5 
> dollar adapter attached to the usb keyboard and in back of pc.  on the newer 
> computers the ps2 even hot plug n play whatever like a usb.  it will 
> re-initialize when re plugging it just like a usb  as well in case you 
> worried about something like that too.   Its best practice imo for qubes.  
> ps2 keyboard don't use a usb one.

yes more people should share their whole environment.  Why be scared?  I 
basically want qubes to be more popular.   best way to learn is still word of 
mouth.

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