USB devices (trackball and PS2-to-usb keyboard) stop responding in Ubuntu Mate 16.04.4

[Kai Heng Feng]

Hi,

> On Apr 29, 2018, at 8:20 PM, Kyprianos Papadimitriou  
> <kpapadim at mhl.tuc.gr> wrote:
>
> see below
>
>
> On 26/04/2018 08:18 μμ, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
>> Hi Kyprianos,
>>
>> at 21:22, Kyprianos Papadimitriou <kpapadim at mhl.tuc.gr> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The following might be a problem related to unsupported devices by the  
>>> Kernel.
>>> I am facing the problem described in the thread:  
>>> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2342985
>>
>> If this is what you are facing, the HID quirk won't do anything. The USB  
>> host controller failed to work in this case.
>>
>>> And my problem is that I don't know how to do the : quirk  
>>> HID_QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL (0x00000400), which is mentioned in the above  
>>> link.
>>
>> Please file a bug at https://launchpad.net.
>>
>> Kai-Heng
>
> I should first create an account, then file the bug?

Yes, that will be great.

Kai-Heng

>
> Thanks
>
> Kyprianos
>
>>> lsusb command for the 2 devices gives:
>>>
>>> Bus 002 Device 009: ID 046d:c404 Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Wheel
>>>
>>> Bus 002 Device 010: ID 0a81:0205 Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2  
>>> Keyboard+Mouse Adapter
>>>
>>> tlp-stat -u command for the 2 devices gives:
>>>
>>> Bus 002 Device 009 ID 046d:c404 control = on, autosuspend_delay_ms =  
>>> -1000 -- Logitech, Inc. TrackMan Wheel (usbhid)
>>>
>>> Bus 002 Device 010 ID 0a81:0205 control = on, autosuspend_delay_ms =  
>>> -1000 -- Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter (usbhid)
>>>
>>> uname -ra gives:
>>>
>>> Linux dell 4.13.0-39-generic #44~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 5 16:43:10  
>>> UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> I think the problem is not related with autosuspend, but rather with  
>>> buffer overflow for the specific devices due to that they are not  
>>> supported in the kernel code.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Kyprianos
>>>
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>>
>>
>> .