Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Justin Piszcz wrote: Actually this very message - ioctl EVIOCGNAME...NULL - is quite common since some time - since either some of X or kernel. But usually it does not come together with a freeze, and it is not necessary about USB to start with -- for example, my synaptics touchpad stopped working, and that's exactly what's shown in the Xorg.log file -- EVIOCGNAME..NULL, when it tries to init the touchpad... JFYI. /mjt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html