Problems with MCS7715 USB-attached parallel port

2016-04-18 Thread Alex Henrie
Hi, I recently bought an MCS7715 USB-attached parallel port,[1] but there seem to be a couple of problems using it with Linux: 1. The lp, parport, and parport_pc kernel modules are not loaded when the device is plugged in. 2. After manually loading the kernel modules, /dev/lp0 is not deleted when

Re: Problems with MCS7715 USB-attached parallel port

2016-04-19 Thread Alex Henrie
2016-04-19 10:44 GMT-06:00 Sudip Mukherjee : > On Tuesday 19 April 2016 06:52 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 06:11:51PM -0600, Alex Henrie wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I recently bought an MCS7715 USB-attached parallel port,[1] but

I'd like to donate a MacBook Pro

2017-04-30 Thread Alex Henrie
Dear kernel developers, I have a MacBookPro12,1 A1502 with a very annoying problem. Every time it boots, the screen stays black for about 90 seconds, and the keyboard is unresponsive for an additional 40 seconds. Both the internal keyboard and (if present) external USB keyboard are unresponsive. T

Re: I'd like to donate a MacBook Pro

2017-05-02 Thread Alex Henrie
2017-05-01 3:03 GMT-06:00 Lukas Wunner : > On Mon, 1 May 2017 00:27:41 -0600, Alex Henrie wrote: >> I am confident that this is a common problem because I have found >> various other users complaining about it: >> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pi

Re: I'd like to donate a MacBook Pro

2017-05-03 Thread Alex Henrie
2017-05-03 5:58 GMT-06:00 Greg KH : > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 10:55:09PM -0600, Alex Henrie wrote: >> Today I ran a regression test to determine which commit made the >> keyboard stop working entirely. The last commit that worked for me was >> c09e22d5370739e16463c113525df51

Re: I'd like to donate a MacBook Pro

2017-05-03 Thread Alex Henrie
2017-05-03 8:58 GMT-06:00 Joerg Roedel : > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 08:35:47AM -0600, Alex Henrie wrote: >> 2017-05-03 5:58 GMT-06:00 Greg KH : >> > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 10:55:09PM -0600, Alex Henrie wrote: >> >> Today I ran a regression test to determine which

Re: I'd like to donate a MacBook Pro

2017-05-11 Thread Alex Henrie
2017-05-11 5:16 GMT-06:00 Mathias Nyman : > Looks like there are a few people suffering from macbook xhci related issues > > From the bugs linked it looks like there are both some UEFI issues and a > non-responsive > usb device at boot. at least one USB device does not respond to a address > device

Re: XHCI is slow during boot (bios/efi) and leaves many dmesg messages

2017-06-05 Thread Alex Henrie
2017-06-05 2:08 GMT-06:00 Maƫl Lavault : > Anything I can do to help ? It is a very annoying issue for me, to > boot, I have to select an old 4.10 kernel (which takes ages since usb > is extremely slow on first boot), then reboot into a 4.11 kernel (usb > works again as it should after a reboot) wi