Bug 157852 – app-misc/g15daemon: syslog filled with "usb_submit_urb returned -22"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2006-12-11 12:33:32 UTC]

As also reported in ciaranm's weblog [1], g15daemon-1.2.6a does not work properly. The G-keys cannot be used anymore and the syslog is spammed with lines saying:
  usb 2-2.4: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -22

Upstream is aware of the bug, but without any solution yet [2].

Apparantly, it happens with all >=gentoo-sources-2.6.16 including 2.6.19.

[1] http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=57
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.devel/48774/focus=48774

[Comment 1 Santtu Pajukanta 2006-12-12 23:43:11 UTC]

I'm experiencing the same behaviour. The G keys don't work, nor do the M or L keys. The backlight, USB hub, LCD and standard multimedia keys work.

[Comment 2 Santtu Pajukanta 2006-12-12 23:48:00 UTC]

Forgot to mention it's gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r1 here on x86. Attaching emerge --info.

[Comment 3 Santtu Pajukanta 2006-12-12 23:48:51 UTC]

Created attachment 103919 [details]
emerge --info output

[Comment 4 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2006-12-13 05:06:13 UTC]

Santtu, thanks a lot for reporting.

Could you please tell me which chipset your mainboard uses?
Also, could you also try to check which was the last kernel version to still work? I am not sure if 2.6.17 still works or if 2.6.15 was the last one working.

[Comment 5 Santtu Pajukanta 2006-12-13 11:20:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Santtu, thanks a lot for reporting.
> 
> Could you please tell me which chipset your mainboard uses?
> Also, could you also try to check which was the last kernel version to still
> work? I am not sure if 2.6.17 still works or if 2.6.15 was the last one
> working.
> 

I bought the keyboard quite recently, and it's in fact never worked with Linux. My old kernel (2.6.17-gentoo-r1) had no UINPUT support enabled, so discarding some 100 days worth of uptime I compiled the new 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 kernel with UINPUT and rebooted to try with it.

If I find the time, I'll try the keyboard with both my desktop (the machine I'm reporting about) and laptop and a few different kernels.

[Comment 6 Santtu Pajukanta 2006-12-13 11:21:27 UTC]

Found the manual of my motherboard (ASUS A7V8X-X): The northbridge is VIA KT400 and the southbridge is VIA VT8235.

[Comment 7 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2006-12-15 18:29:43 UTC]

No need to test any further yet, as the bug seems to be fixed upstream.

New version should be in CVS soon.

[Comment 8 Santtu Pajukanta 2006-12-16 03:01:06 UTC]

Yay \o/

[Comment 9 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2006-12-18 17:13:07 UTC]

libg15-1.1.1 is in the tree now, fixing this bug according to upstream.

[Comment 10 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2006-12-19 04:28:54 UTC]

Robert is right here, update to libg15-1.1.1 and you have your working G Keys back :)