[SOLVED] External USB mouse doesn't work

I've installed Arch on my laptop and today faced with a problem. When I boot with AC off my external USB mouse doesn't work. Also it looks like USB ports don't work. If I detached AC when working mouse works fine.
I can suppose there is some problem with laptop mode. May be it turns off usb ports to save energy. Anyway quick search doesn't brings any results. If someone give me a hint how to solve this problem I'll be very grateful.
Last edited by avli (2011-07-14 16:53:15)

Well, after diving into configs solution has been founded. The point was to disable auto suspend feature in laptop-mode-tools config by setting BATT_SUSPEND_USB variable to 0 in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/usb-autosuspend.conf
Hope this information will be helpful for users who probably faced with the same problem. Thank you!

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Linux version 2.6.19-ARCH (root@Laptop) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061215 (prerelease)
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BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 00000000000f0000 (ACPI NVS)
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248MB LOWMEM available.
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Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
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Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
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fixmap : 0xfff83000 - 0xfffff000 ( 496 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xd0000000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 759 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcf800000 ( 248 MB)
.init : 0xc0405000 - 0xc0446000 ( 260 kB)
.data : 0xc0346806 - 0xc03fe64c ( 735 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0346806 (2330 kB)
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Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
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CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
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Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
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checking if image is initramfs... it is
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ACPI: bus type pci registered
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PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
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ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
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ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 15)
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PCI quirk: region ec00-ec0f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
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pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
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pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee80-0xeeff has been reserved
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IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 80000000-800fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8fffffff
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IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
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00:03: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
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RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
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ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
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ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
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VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:14.1
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ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1888-0x188f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
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hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK drive
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hdd: Compaq CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
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Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
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usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001860
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x90000000
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usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
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parport_pc: probing current configuration
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PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
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pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
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PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ
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eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link 0021.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbhid: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -71
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
Adding 262576k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:262576k
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash TS256MJF110 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
usb-storage: device scan complete
eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0021
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
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[drm] Initialized savage 2.4.1 20050313 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
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Linux version 2.6.19-ARCH (root@Laptop) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061215 (prerelease
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ec000 - 00000000000f0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f800000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
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248MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 63488) 0 entries of 256 used
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Normal 4096 -> 63488
HighMem 63488 -> 63488
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 63488
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DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
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Normal zone: 464 pages used for memmap
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ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K31 0x00010503 0x00000000) @ 0x000ec0cc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ HAWA7K3 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x000ec223
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDTTBL 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
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Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 246968k/253952k available (2330k kernel code, 6392k reserved, 735k data
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff83000 - 0xfffff000 ( 496 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xd0000000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 759 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcf800000 ( 248 MB)
.init : 0xc0405000 - 0xc0446000 ( 260 kB)
.data : 0xc0346806 - 0xc03fe64c ( 735 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0346806 (2330 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1805.52 BogoMIPS (lpj=3611040)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000420 00000000 000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 501k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c28)
CPU0: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa154, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 15)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region ee00-eeff claimed by vt82c586 ACPI
PCI quirk: region ec00-ec0f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee00-0xee7f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xee80-0xeeff has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 80000000-800fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8fffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:03: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:14.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1880-0x1887, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1888-0x188f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: Compaq CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IR
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IR
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.3: irq 11, io base 0x00001860
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x90000000
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,E
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IR
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.5 to 64
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
via686a 0000:00:14.4: base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xa
vt596_smbus 0000:00:14.4: SMBUS: Error: Host SMBus controller not enabled! - up
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.2 Sept-11-2006 Written by Donald Becker
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:05.0 (0004 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x11000, 00:05:5d:e9:5a:17, IRQ 5.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link 0021.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbhid: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -71
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
Adding 262576k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:262576k
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash TS256MJF110 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
usb-storage: device scan complete
eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0021
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ
[drm] Initialized savage 2.4.1 20050313 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
mtrr: base(0x8a000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: HID 062a:0000 as /class/input/input2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:14.2-1

Having touchpad auto disable when external usb mouse is present

Apparently as hardware and drivers change this feature got dropped. Just purchased a Probook 450 and was very used to my touchpad having the option to turn off when a external usb mouse (logitech wireless) was plugged in. This new system had no such feature and I spent several hours searching for a solution of reason why.
Finally found one I took a shot on that worked just like I was used too. Now when usb mouse is inserted the pc pops up message saying touchpad disabled and when unplugged the touchpad comes back on and pc pops up message saying pad enabled. No software change. No hardware change. Just a simple registry edit and feature back on.
Seems after doing my searches I might as well share this info for those looking for the answer.
***disclaimers***
*make sure your usb mouse works before you do this because if it dose not and this fails to work or you do it wrong you may have no "mouse" to navigate with.
*warning- editing the windows registry is not something for the clueless*- errors can cause major problems that said this is a very simple simple fix and hp should just perma fix it for all synaptics touchpad laptops.
*can not test this with non synaptics touchpads tho it may work if you can find the registry entry for that brand*
*this was done on windows 7 system with Synaptics touch pad and my prior one was windows 7 and so was my wifes dell laptop, all Synaptics, all Windows 7- no clue on windows 8 or vista*
*if someone has found an easier fix post it because took me hours to even find this*
Windows 7 OS- Start menu- in the programs and files box at bottom type "regedit" without the quotes and press enter.
Click ok to continue on popup box. Window comes up with your system registry. Expand the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" then expand the "Software" then down to the "Synaptics" and expand that one. Left Click on the "SynTPEnh" and to right will open the sub entries. The one your looking for is "DisableIntPDFeature". Just write down the last two numbers in the ( ) at far right of this line incase this does not work so you can put it back to what it was. Once you wrote it down, now you can change it- right click on the DisableIntPDFeature and a window pops up. Left click on "Modify..." then in new popup window on right side left click on decimal and in the window on left of this popup type in the numbers 51. Left click OK once numbers entered and close it and and then close the whole application and reboot. Done. System should auto switch from usb mouse to Synaptics touchpad.
If it does not work I am sorry- follow the above steps and type back in the number you wrote down before the change and save and reboot or reinstall the mousepad driver for your system from hp.

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External Combo Drive doesn't work after installing Snow Leopard

This Mini was bought used with a defective combo drive. I purchased a "No-Brand" external Combo Drive (USB connected and powered) off eBay. Everything worked fine under Leopard. I used the external drive to install Snow leopard but could not eject the DVD at the completion of the installation process. I manually ejected the DVD and discovered the external drive now doesn't work with either DVD's or CD"s.
Any ideas what the problem is?
Ken

Mark this up to "cockpit' trouble on my part. The external combo drive now works.

After software update usb mouse no longer works.

After software update Microsoft usb mouse no longer works. System Profiler "sees" usb mouse. I took my macbook to the Genius Bar at Apple and they were not able to help. Pretty lame....

any ideas on how to solva this?

Magic Charger for the Magic Mouse doesn´t work

Hi,
I´ve recently did my first purchase on the apple store,
I´ve bought the magic charger from mobee for the Magic Mouse,
which has been working all good with the normal batteries,
but since I´ve install the new magic charger batteries I just can´t make
work the magic mouse, I´ve plug the magic charge into a usb from the iMac 24"
I´ve wait almost a day so tha the Magic Mouse charge the batteries than
when I switch on the Magic Mouse doesn´t work, the green light from Magic Mouse stands off,
so obviously the bluetooth from iMac 24" doesn´t recognize Magic Mouse,
¿Any suggestion?
Thank you very much in advance.

Hi Allan Jones,
I don´t know under with authority you´ve answered this thread,
but and don´t get me wrong, your message was completely worthless.
Since I did a purchase on the apple store, the apple store should answer
for every inconvenient with the product than I did purchase, and as Apple
is a big multinational who cares for his customers, they did so Apple store sended
special transport to my home to get the malfunctional Magic Charger and than
they send me a new one which seems would work fine.
Thank you very much in advance.

External USB HD does not work with HAL:

External USB HD does not work with HAL:
From the last 10 days the HAL auto-mount with ntfs-3g file system of my external hard drive does not woks.
But the manual mount procedure with the command mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb* /mnt/XYZ works.
I've followed the instructions in the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL and the system has worked up to the last kernel or HAL update.
My fat32 usb-stick works without any problem.
If I try to open the device with KDE it appears an error popup wit this message:
TODO: have to rethink extra options
Error: kio_media_mount_helper
The log from the kernel.log is
Nov 6 22:03:16 myhost usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Nov 6 22:03:16 myhost usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 6 22:03:17 myhost Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Nov 6 22:03:17 myhost ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Nov 6 22:03:17 myhost Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Nov 6 22:03:17 myhost scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 6 22:03:17 myhost usb-storage: device found at 4
Nov 6 22:03:17 myhost usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Nov 6 22:03:17 myhost usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Nov 6 22:03:17 myhost USB Mass Storage support registered.
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Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB)
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sdb: sdb1
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost usb-storage: device scan complete
and the error.log is
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 6 22:03:22 myhost sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Do you have some idea ....
Bye.

I have done the following:
Downloaded the patched hal version.
used makepkg in /abs/local/trunk/ to create a pkg for pacman
used sudo pacman -U pkgname to install it.
used sudo nano /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi to create the fdi file with the following content:
saved the file and removed my ntfs entryes from fstab and rebooted. and still there is no automount off ntfs partitions.
have i done something wrong?
br fjodork
WARNING: what follows is a guide of what did work for me, I'm still in an early stage of learning linux, so please correct me if anything of what follows is wrong/dangerous/stupid. As I said, this worked for me, it's not pretty, since I was learning each step on the fly and I'm sure there are better ways to do this.
So fjodork, you seem to have done the the necessary steps, though i couldn't get it to work until i first removed hal without dependencies
pacman -Rd hal
it will give you some warning about the dependencies, ignore it since we are reinstalling hal in a few steps.
First i tried to follow Raymano's link, obviously it showed me nothing in the browser so I thought it might be a broken link.
So I downloaded the source tarball from here http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-0.5.10.tar.gz
unpacked it changed the /tools/hal-storage-mount.c as per Milfadoodle's instructions.
at first I tried to compile directly from source, the process would finish without a glitch though after reboot nothing changed, as if hal weren't
installed, i guess there were issues with paths. anyway read on
Then repacked the source in tarball, copied it to /var/abs/extra/system/hal and modified the PKGBUILD as follows
makedepends=('pkgconfig' 'gperf')
options=('!libtool')
install=hal.install
source=(${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz #removed url so makepkg looks in the current directory for the tarball
hal
hal-policy.patch
cryptsetup_location.patch
hal-0.5.9-hide-diagnostic.patch
ntfs3g-valid-options.patch)
md5sums=('6641c30a27c00485c6accac5110ff911' # replace with md5sum of your package's sourceball (run md5sum filename)
'882f67668cb14a0a9e4a27ef22278027'
'5ba8b610aa9763a5f42b9f7cbd7a86ad'
then makepkg (i had to add --asroot, don't ask why
and finally pacman -U hal-0.5.10-1-i686.pkg
another reboot and everything worked without a glitch!:D (yeah i know i still haven't got rid of the reboot mentality )
I have also put the policy files as per the wiki instructions.
PS: I know this is a dirty way to getting things done but as i said, I'm just starting
If anyone could comment/correct/explain this post I'd be more than happy, the automount issue was bothering me for about a month now (you'll say why do I need ntfs in the first place? well, I only recently switched for Linux as my primary OS, these are some relics of the M$ era

External USB keyboard does not work with T60 after BIOS upgrade

External USB keyboard does not work properly with T60 after 2.26-1.07 BIOS upgrade.
It does the same with or without the docking station.
Anyone else bumped into this problem yet?
Has someone found any fixes for this?
t

Hi and welcome the forum!
Try uninstalling all USB hub devices from the device manager and reinstalling them again, particularly the keyboard's.
v2.26 is supposed to fix the issue according to lenovo:- http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-63024
Hope it helps.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
ThinkPads:- T400[Win 7], T60[Win 7], IBM 240[Win XP]
IdeaPad: U350
Apple:- Macbook Air [Snow Leopard]
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