Subject: Re: USB devices powering off?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/06/2003 19:19:49
In message <200302061752.46816.darcy@NetBSD.org>, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" writes:
>I wonder if this is related to something that I am seeing. On my Toshiba
>laptop running 1.6K I have a Targus port replicator plugged in with a PS/2
>keyboard. The replicator is plugged into one USB on the laptop and a USP
>optical mouse is on the other. Every so often the mouse (which has these
>spacey red lights all over it) goes dead. The mouse stops working, today it
>happened in mid mouse move, and all the lights go out. Rebooting seems to be
>the only way to get it started again although I haven't tried stopping and
>restarting xdm. I have tried restarting my session though as well as
>unplugging, etc.
Hmm. That sounds very much like what's been happening to my keyboard widget.
Curiously, if memory serves, on my PS/2 adapter, only the keyboard went out.
And sure, it could be coincidence, but there might be a real bug lurking in
there somewhere.
-s