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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Alrighty ... my USB stopped working

I have no idea why and not really sure where to start.  It always worked, but recently, it just ... stopped.  It works in Windows, so it's not the hardware.

So I plug in a USB thumb drive and it displays in /dev as sdb, but doesn't display the partitions.  When I do a cfdisk /dev/sdb, it says that the partition table is fubarred.  When I plug in an optical mouse, it lights, but it doesn't do anything to the cursor when I move it.

Any ideas?

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: Alrighty ... my USB stopped working

Usbview and lsusb for starters...

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delphiki

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Registered: 2007-11-17

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Re: Alrighty ... my USB stopped working

Also, have you updated your system recently? Many odd quirks have been fixed for many issues recently.

Cheers,

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: Alrighty ... my USB stopped working

Well, here I am again blaming myself for blaming linux.  I moved my xorg.conf to xorg.conf.test and tried running the server without a config - my USB mouse works.  And it turns out that the thumbdrive's partitions were messed up to begin with.  The odds pointed at linux, but it was just testing my loyalty

I'll fix my configs and format this drive.  Thanks for the support guys!