Joypad quits working at random?

I am having an issue with my touchscreen randomly quitting. I have been tearing out what is left of my hair trying to fix it but maybe it might not all be me.

A mate here has had issues with his Joypad stopping as well. We have swapped it with another recently but too soon to tell if was the hardware.

Jayson.

P.S. Is there a command I can have running in a terminal session that logs the status of the usb devices. I would like to see if all usb communication is lost and only some devices reconnect or if it is just isolated to certain devices.

You might check dmesg right after you notice that it is gone.

John

Power control software in the bios, linux, and so on can power down devices after their non use for a peroid of time. Although power control schemes are normally inhibited in our installations, sometimes one can sneak by and cause some strange behavior in a realtime enviroment.

Myself and a friend had a lot of problems with this with the foxconn computers we got (atom processor) and had to add a disable toggle into a grub file for the advanced power control before the computer would run reliably. (were getting random hangs and such)

My Joypad did this today. plugging and unplugging got the "mode" led working again, but LinuxCNC wasn't listening.

Sounds like a bug, but not a LinuxCNC bug.

My Joypad did this today. plugging and unplugging got the "mode" led working again, but LinuxCNC wasn't listening.

Andy,

Are you using an extension cable?

Rick G

Rick G wrote: Are you using an extension cable?

No.
It is a very old PC, and seems to suport USB only reluctantly anyway. (USB drives don't work)