How to disable hiddev96 in linux (or tell it to ignore a specific device)
- by Miky D
I'm having problems with a CentOS 5.0 system when using a certain USB device. The problem is that the device advertises itself as a HID device and linux is happy to try to provide support for it:
In /ver/log/messages I see a line that reads: hiddev96: USB HID 1.11 Device [KXX USB PRO] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
My question comes down to: Is there a way to tell linux to not use hiddev96 for that device in particular? If yes, how? If not, what are my options - can I turn hiddev96 off completely?
UPDATE
I should probably have been a bit more specific about what is going on. The machine is running Centos 5.0, and on top of it I'm running VMWare workstation with Windows XP - which is where the USB device is actually supposed to operate. All works fine for other USB devices (i.e. VMWare successfully connects the USB device to the guest OS and the OS can use it, but for this particular device VMWare connects it to the guest OS, but the OS can't read/write to it) Every attempt locks up the application that is trying to communicate with the device. I've reason to believe that it is because the device is a HID device and there's some contention between the Linux host and the Windows guest OS in accessing the device.
Below is the output from modprobe -l|grep -i hid as requested by @Karolis:
# modprobe -l | grep -i hid
/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5/kernel/net/bluetooth/hidp/hidp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/phidgetservo.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/phidgetkit.ko
And here is the output of lsmod
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
udf 76997 1
vboxdrv 65696 0
autofs4 24517 2
hidp 23105 2
rfcomm 42457 0
l2cap 29633 10 hidp,rfcomm
tun 14657 0
vmnet 49980 16
vmblock 20512 3
vmmon 945236 0
sunrpc 144253 1
cpufreq_ondemand 10573 1
video 19269 0
sbs 18533 0
backlight 10049 0
i2c_ec 9025 1 sbs
button 10705 0
battery 13637 0
asus_acpi 19289 0
ac 9157 0
ipv6 251393 27
lp 15849 0
snd_hda_intel 24025 2
snd_hda_codec 202689 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0
snd_seq_oss 32577 0
nvidia 7824032 31
snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49713 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 11725 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42945 0
snd_mixer_oss 19009 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 72133 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
joydev 13313 0
sg 36061 0
parport_pc 29157 1
snd_timer 24645 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 52421 13 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
ndiswrapper 170384 0
parport 37513 2 lp,parport_pc
hci_usb 20317 2
ide_cd 40033 1
tg3 104389 0
i2c_i801 11469 0
bluetooth 53925 8 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
soundcore 11553 1 snd
cdrom 36705 1 ide_cd
serio_raw 10693 0
snd_page_alloc 14281 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_core 23745 3 i2c_ec,nvidia,i2c_i801
pcspkr 7105 0
dm_snapshot 20709 0
dm_zero 6209 0
dm_mirror 28741 0
dm_mod 58201 8 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ahci 23621 4
libata 115833 1 ahci
sd_mod 24897 5
scsi_mod 132685 3 sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3 123337 3
jbd 56553 1 ext3
ehci_hcd 32973 0
ohci_hcd 23261 0
uhci_hcd 25421 0
