Re: Tool to enable USB power management

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Am Donnerstag 26 Februar 2009 00:10:58 schrieb Sarah Sharp:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:04:07AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 25 Februar 2009 20:09:55 schrieb Sarah Sharp:
> > > I'm aware that Oliver found some USB mice that would wakeup only when a
> > > button was clicked but not when they were moved.  I'm not sure whether
> >
> > Every mouse I tested behaved this way. 4 out of 4.
>
> Interesting.  Maybe this is the way mice are supposed to work (TM)?
> Perhaps they can't meet the power requirement for selective suspend if
> they leave on their optic sensors.  Did you test any wheel mice?

Plausible theory. No, I don't have any mechanical mice.
>
> > > such a mouse should be added to the whitelist; on one hand auto-suspend
> > > does work in a limited sense, but the user might notice a new "failure"
> > > and assume they need to change their mice batteries.  If this
> > > semi-broken device shouldn't be added to the whitelist I could add
> > > special prompts for HID devices.
> >
> > It seems to me that we should have a grey list and autosuspend
> > for such mice should be linked to the screensaver.
> >
> > But I cannot confirm Alan's bad experience with keyboards. Every
> > keyboard worked flawlessly. 3 out of 3.
>
> That's great!  Care to send me the VID:PIDs?

I'll get them out of the bin tomorrow.

> Maybe something changed between the time Alan tested keyboard
> auto-suspend?  I know you went through several revisions of the HID
> auto-suspend support patch.

I fear ohci vs. uhci may be a factor.

	Regards
		Oliver

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