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

[Kyprianos Papadimitriou]

Hello,

See below please


On 02/05/2018 06:44 πμ, Kai Heng Feng wrote:
> 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
>

I 've just reported it as bug at https://launchpad.net, it got the 
ID#1769403, with subject : "USB devices (trackball and PS2-to-usb 
keyboard) freeze in Ubuntu Mate 16.04.4 , and DELL latitude"

>>
>> 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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>>>
>>>
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