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maddog
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 Posted: Mon 19 Mar 2012, 18:37 Post subject:
 Slacko doesn't see all 3 USB ports (FIXED) |
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Hey all!
I've noticed that Slacko Puppy 5.3.1 doesn't recognize all three usb ports on my Inspiron N7110. It only sees one of them. The other two do nothing when I plug in my mouse and/or keyboard. However, my CentOS 6 installation on the same laptop sees all three usb ports without issue. Any ideas? Not sure why one Linux installation would be different than another in this regard. This is really strange.
--Ray.
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musher0
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Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada
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| Posted: Fri 30 Mar 2012, 21:29 Post subject:
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Hello, maddog.
You probably need to "declare" your usb drives in fstab. Here's mine :
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information
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/dev/sdc2 none swap pri=5,defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
(... other hard drives...)
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 ntfs defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
/dev/sdc2 /mnt/sdc2 ext2 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
/dev/sdc3 /mnt/sdc3 vfat defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
/dev/sdc4 /mnt/sdc4 ext2 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/sdd1 vfat defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
/dev/sdd2 /mnt/sdd2 ext2 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
/dev/sde1 /mnt/sde1 vfat defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
/dev/sde2 /mnt/sde2 ext2 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 2
/dev/ram0 /mnt/disqv ext2 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 # ramdrive
/dev/sr0 /mnt/sr0 iso9660 noauto,user,ro,unhide 0 0 # cd/dvd
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Note: You would need the "noatime,nodiratime" if you have thumbdrives, to save on the number of writes, or on any drive, to speed up things a little. But beware, "atime" is the access time, so if you indicate "noatime", no access time will be written to the drive for the corresponding file.
You would also need to activate these drives in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, something like this (just insert, don't touch anything else in this file):
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mount -a -t ext3
sleep 0.4s
mount -a -t ext2
sleep 0.4s
mount -a -t vfat
sleep 0.4s
# Only keep mounted the needed drives # saves time to do it this way.
umount /mnt/sda2
sleep 0.4s
umount /mnt/sda5
sleep 0.4s
# umount /mnt/sda6
# sleep 0.4s
umount /mnt/sdb6
sleep 0.4s
umount /mnt/sdb7
sleep 0.4s
# FreeAgent drive
ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
sleep 0.4s
mount -t ext2 /dev/sdc2 /mnt/sdc2
sleep 0.4s
mount -t vfat /dev/sdc3 /mnt/sdc3
sleep 0.4s
mount -t ext2 /dev/sdc4 /mnt/sdc4
sleep 0.4s
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At the top of this, "mount -a -t (filesystem)" mounts all partitions of the type; then I selectively unmount some drives which I rarely use.
The FreeAgent part is for a usb harddrive divided in four partitions.
The "sleep" 's are there because the mount program needs a little time to do its stuff on each drive.
I know you are talking about "ports" rather than drives or partitions, but it is essentially in the same ball park. A port will generally NOT be displayed
* if there is nothing in the port OR
* there is a (thumb)drive in the port, but it has no corresponding listing in fstab to support it.
The simpler way to go about this is of course to use the PMount utility. But it's painfully slow, and you'd need to launch PMount every time you want to mount a drive.
There is also the handy list of drives at the bottom left of your Puppy desktop, but sometimes, as you noticed, this list is not complete, because of no listing in fstab and no script lines in rc.local to activate them.
I hope this helps. BFN.
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musher0
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| Posted: Fri 30 Mar 2012, 21:39 Post subject:
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Silly me... My bad. I just realized that you were concerned about usb mouse and keyboard not being recognized... Not drives... Oh, well, I'll leave the info in the post in case someone needs it.
However, there is a menu item under "config" -> "wizards" -> "mouse and keyboard" that may help you get what you want. The 4th item there says "Choose type of mouse"; and the 2nd item offers various options for keyboards.
BFN.
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maddog
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| Posted: Thu 17 May 2012, 15:20 Post subject:
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I updated to FatSlacko which fixed the issue with the USB ports. I suspect that it is because of the later kernel used in FS but I don't know for sure.
--Ray.
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