What I find odd is that the switch works fine on my pop os linux installation on my laptop. I've already tried connecting it to a different usb port on the same computer. Without luck... How would I go about making the usbhid driver ignore the mouse issues? When I unplug the mouse from the switch, and have only the keyboard connected, it still randomly disconnects. The thing is: this linux system used to live as an ssd in my laptop. But I've literally unplugged it from my onboard laptop and plugged it into my pc to see if I could boot from it. Which worked. So perhaps there is something in the kernel or in the linux distro misconfigured to work with laptops exclusively? And is therefore causing the issues? Are there any laptop specific kernel modules or services/binaries that can cause power management or signal issues? Op wo 14 jul. 2021 om 20:05 schreef Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 07:39:51PM +0200, Hylke Hellinga wrote: > > Yes, I did. > > > > I've connected both the mouse, keyboard and headset to the pc and it would > > function normally. I know it has to do with the switch itself. But I have > > no idea how to fix it. > > When you connect the mouse directly to the PC, does it still run at full > speed or does it go up to high speed? > > > The switch works fine under windows and macos, and it is even advertised to > > work under linux. But you never know with amazon products whether that is > > actually the case. > > Do you have any other Linux computers you can try the switch with? Or > USB ports on your computer connected to a different host controller? > > > I don't have a different usb switch I can test. I've tried different input > > usb cables as well. The usb cable coming from the switch going into my > > computer is pretty long. > > Well, maybe a shorter cable would help. But basically, I have no idea > how to fix it either. A possible workaround would be to make the usbhid > driver ignore all the errors coming from the mouse instead of resetting > it, but such a change would not be generally acceptable for the kernel. > > It ought to be possible to get the equivalent of a usbmon trace under > Windows or Mac OS, using Wireshark. That would at least show if the > same errors occur in those settings, and if they do, how the operating > systems deal with them. > > To track down the problem any further would require a more detailed > knowledge of the USB support in Windows or Mac OS (which I don't have) > and/or some rather expensive USB bus analyzer hardware. It would be > cheaper and quicker just to get a different brand of switch. :-( > > Alan Stern
