[PlanetCCRMA] Re: 2.6.7 ccrma kernel and usb / nvidia support

[Rick B]

Shayne O'Connor wrote:

>hi fernando
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>i haven't been able to notice whether it fails - these are basically the
>only messages i see when booting ...
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>>Nov 18 17:17:36 localhost syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:36 localhost syslog: klogd startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:36 localhost irqbalance: irqbalance startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:36 localhost portmap: portmap startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:36 localhost nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:36 localhost ifup:  done. 
>>Nov 18 17:17:36 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0:  succeeded 
>>Nov 18 17:17:41 localhost rpcidmapd: rpc.idmapd startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:41 localhost random: Initializing random number generator:  succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:41 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia:  succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:41 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems:  succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:41 localhost autofs: automount startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:41 localhost smartd: smartd startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:41 localhost acpid: acpid startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:44 localhost cups: cupsd startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:44 localhost sshd:  succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:44 localhost xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:44 localhost sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:44 localhost sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:45 localhost gpm: gpm startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:45 localhost crond: crond startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:45 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:45 localhost anacron: anacron startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:45 localhost atd: atd startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:46 localhost readahead: Starting background readahead: 
>>Nov 18 17:17:46 localhost rc: Starting readahead:  succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:46 localhost messagebus: messagebus startup succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:46 localhost wine: Registering binary handler for Windows applications
>>Nov 18 17:17:46 localhost rc: Starting wine:  succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:46 localhost mdmonitor: mdadm succeeded
>>Nov 18 17:17:46 localhost mdmpd: mdmpd failed
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>(what is that mdmpd module?)
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>this is what's in my /proc/bus/usb folder:
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>>[mrmachine at localhost usb]$ ls -l
>>total 0
>>dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 0 Nov 18 21:02 001
>>dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 0 Nov 18 21:02 002
>>dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 0 Nov 18 21:02 003
>>-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Nov 18 21:02 devices
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>if i run 
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>>mount -t usbdevfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb
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>from a command line, here's what i get:
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>>[root at localhost usb]# mount -t usbdevfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb
>>mount: usbdevfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy
>>mount: according to mtab, usbdevfs is already mounted on /proc/bus/usb
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>do you think it might help to add usbdevfs to fstab?
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>shayne
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Shayne,
     I was waiting for Fernando to give his expertise on this but since 
he's no doubt very busy I'll go ahead and add my 2 cents worth. On 
/proc/bus/usb/devices you only have read permission and this *might* be 
a problem, but I don't have any expierience troubleshooting this kind of 
problem, so I can't say for sure. Have you tried doing this as root? If 
it works as root then it is a permissions problem. By the way, you have 
a lot of stuff starting at boot that you really don't need 
(sendmail,portmap,netfs,etc...).

                Rick B