Christopher Shanahan wrote:

On Thursday 23 June 2005 23:47, you wrote:

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Hm. Looking back through my saved messages, I see someone has something misconfigured. Older message headers from SLE have

... I'm not sure. I would have to give that some thought. I use kmail and it recognizes mail from a list serve and adds an option to the REPLY function -- 'Reply To Mailing-List...' Works great!

Well, actually, your last two messages to me have come with no "Reply-To:" field at all. They also seem to come directly to me, not from suse. Suse doesn't appear at all in the message header, even set to "full". I'll try deleting your address from the "To:" list. Maybe kmail didn't notice the second "To:" field?

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As for your output... I see nothing related to either device when they're added to your machine. What type of machine is it? Looks like embedded USB controller, right? Do you have access to a USB PCI card to rule out problems with the MB? Do you see any IRQ errors in dmesg? Which kernel?

Well, that's right, lspci and lsusb neither seem to be aware of the devices. But they both see my trackball, and /var/log/messages plainly shows the devices being plugged in, but refusing to accept a SCSI address from the driver. Is there no obvious help there? I'm sure I have something misconfigured, but what?

I'm not so sure its a configuration problem -- at least not one that you would have been responsible for. We've all seen many on-board USB chips do flaky things in recent years, especially when you start adding devices such as USB mice, USB keyboards, etc. -- IRQs get messed up. Do you see any IRQ errors in dmesg? Again, what type of machine is it? Desktop? Laptop? Kernel version?

It's a homebrew desktop using an Asus A7V333, suse 9.2, kernel 2.6.8-24. The hardware sites say it's one of the better supported motherboards. NO IRQ errors, no PCI errors. Just the dmesg alert that the device was detected, but would not accept a SCSI address.

Do you have access to a PCI USB card that you could use to help rule out problems with the USB chip on the MB?

No. All I can say is that it works fine on my wife's A7V400 under Windows XP Pro. She uses the same Logitek USB trackball.

Do you have an older PS/2 mouse you could use instead of the trackball? (You did say the trackball was USB, right?) You could reboot your machine with a PS/2 mouse then try the Cruzer.

This is a good possibility, though I'll have to dig deep into the parts bags.

Regardless, I would do all your experimenting with the Cruzer, not the Palm. The Palm wouldn't be recognized as a block device, like the Cruzer, and will be harder to troubleshoot.

Ah, something definite to try! I'll work on that and get back in touch, and keep watching the list in hope that someone else recognizes my symptoms. jp