Hi I have bought a new laptop. It's a GERICOM Hummer with a pentium 4 (hyperthreading) and 80GB HD with winxp. So I have installed SuSE Linux 9.1 also on it. I did also buy a usb mouse for it. But it didn't work. After some investigation I did understand that the hole usb system was not working. (rccoldplug restart and rchotplug restart could not help!!!) I did get the following error messages from /var/log/messages kernel: usb 1-3: new low speed USB device using address 4 kernel: usb 1-3: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 1 but max is 0 kernel: usb 1-3: can't read configurations, error -22 those errors were also posted in some other messages: http://forum.hardware.fr/hardwarefr/OSAlternatifs/sujet-41318-1.htm and also http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg04134.html and the follow up http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg03866.html and I tried the advice to compile a newer kernel. But I did get some bad harddisc problems. Look inside dmesg file. It can be found at: http://www.nwn.de/ebartels/linux/2.6.9_rc2_mm3_2h20_short.txt I did reduce the error messages. The original file is 7095 lines long. Those errors were gone if i did boot the default suse kernel or the 2.6.6 kernel again. The hard disc did I split up like this: fdisk -l /dev/hda: ---------------------- Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 33936 17103712+ 7 HPFS/NTFS (-> ntfs /windows) /dev/hda2 33937 33961 12600 83 Linux (-> ext2 /boot) /dev/hda3 33962 36041 1048320 82 Linux swap (-> swap - ) /dev/hda4 36042 155061 59986080 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) (-> - - ) /dev/hda5 36042 96376 30408808+ 83 Linux (-> reiserfs / ) /dev/hda6 96377 155061 29577208+ 83 Linux (-> reiserfs /home) ---------------------- I'am using grub as bootloader grub -v -> 0.94 I did tests with following kernels: ----------------------------------- Nu. Kernel Compiled hda6_problem usb_system -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 2.6.5-7.108-smp (SuSE) N Okay Not working 2. 2.6.6 (Vanila) Y Okay Not working 3. 2.6.7 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Not sure ! 4. 2.6.8.1 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Okay 5. 2.6.9-rc2 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Okay 6. 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Okay 7. 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 (Vanila) Y error - SUM Okay SUM = single user mode Following things I did to solve the problem: -------------------------------------------- 1. reiserfsprog new version installed old : 3.6.13 new : 3.6.18 -> did not help 2. fstab options changed from "acl,user_xattr" to "default" -> did not help 3. DMA deactivated and tried to mount /home again -> same errors -> did not help 4. reiserfsck /dev/hda5 -> no errors found reiserfsck /dev/hda6 -> no errors found -> did not help 5. reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hda5 -> no errors found reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hda6 -> no errors found -> did not help 6. reiserfsck --clean-attributes /dev/hda5 -> no errors found reiserfsck --clean-attributes /dev/hda6 -> no errors found -> did not help 7. Booting with the failsave options: ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 -> did not help 8. Test loop: Finding the partions and print them on screen Started on the shell at an default kernel of suse (2.6.5-7.108-smp) gpart v0.1h (c) 1999-2001 Michail Brzitwa . --------- surprise:/> gpart /dev/hda Begin scan... Possible partition(Windows NT/W2K FS), size(16701mb), offset(0mb) Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(12mb), offset(16702mb) Possible partition(Linux swap), size(1023mb), offset(16715mb) Possible extended partition at offset(17738mb) * Warning: short read near sector(156301299), 64512 bytes instead of 66048. Skipping... End scan. Checking partitions... Partition(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX): primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): primary Ok. Guessed primary partition table: Primary partition(1) type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) size: 16701mb #s(34205680) s(63-34205742) chs: (0/1/1)-(1023/15/63)d (0/1/1)-(33934/4/19)r Primary partition(2) type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) size: 12mb #s(25200) s(34207488-34232687) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (33936/0/1)-(33960/15/63)r Primary partition(3) type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86) size: 1023mb #s(2096640) s(34232688-36329327) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (33961/0/1)-(36040/15/63)r Primary partition(4) type: 005(0x05)(Extended DOS) size: 58580mb #s(119972160) s(36329328-156301487) chs: (1023/15/63)-(1023/15/63)d (36041/0/1)-(155060/15/63)r ----------------------------------- Why could gpart not found the 2 partions in the extended partition ? Does it only work with old reiserfs partions ? 9. If I did the reiserfsck program on the /dev/hda6 partions at the kernels 2.6.7 - 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 it gives all the errors as seen below in the dmesg output and so I could not check that partion with those kernels. It seems to be a hardware problem of the harddisc but after booting with the default SuSE9.1 Kernel all hda6 errors are gone. Everything was mount fine. So I thing this can't be a harddisc problem!? Is there something wrong with the ide driver ? Is there something wrong with the reiserfs driver ? Is there something wrong with .. ? What else ? But why can the system boot the root partion? It is also an reiserfs partition! Does somebody know what I can to, test, analyse, solve this error ? My dmesg messages file of kernel 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 can be found at: http://www.nwn.de/ebartels/linux/2.6.9_rc2_mm3_2h20_short.txt Thanks for listening! Enno