BigBen Wireless Gamepads work randomly

[Mr Jingle]

"BigBen Wireless Gamepads" are Xbox 360 shape-like gamepads using RF USB dongles to communicate with the computer. They are detected by lsusb as "ACRUX RF USB GAMEPAD 8206", and use the standard joydev driver. The actual devices after detecting the connection with the RF dongle display a confirmation led. If such connection is not detected, the led will blink.

On Ubuntu 10.04 ( linux kernel is "2.6.32-20-generic" ) the dongle detection seems to work randomly, requiring removing and reconnecting the dongle multiple times till the link is established. Such behaviour occurs on two different devices, and both of them work correctly under windows xp.

nor lsusb, dmesg or jstest show different informations regarding the device while it's working or not. In any case, I've added the lsusb.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-20-generic 2.6.32-20.30
Regression: No
Reproducible: No
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.30-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: salvo 1455 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Nessun file o directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd2400000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Conexant CX20551 (Waikiki)'
   Components : 'HDA:14f15047,103c30a5,00100000'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 8
Date: Tue Apr 13 16:20:46 2010
Frequency: I don't know.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=b15622f3-857c-43d4-b672-317d872fb22e
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv5000 (EW782EA#ABZ)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-20-generic root=UUID=60cff684-6fcc-4acc-b5ea-482993b5d4ad ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
 LANG=it_IT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.33
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 09/07/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.24
dmi.board.name: 30A7
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 56.48
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.24:bd09/07/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv5000(EW782EA#ABZ):pvrF.24:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30A7:rvr56.48:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv5000 (EW782EA#ABZ)
dmi.product.version: F.24
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Mr,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Mr Jingle (mrjingle)]

Tested with mainline kernel 2.6.34-999-generic #201005081426 ( linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic_2.6.34-999.201005081426_i386.deb and related packages ), no differences between this and latest 2.6.32-22-generic.
The devices require at least one "remove and re-insert" before an application recognize them.
Such behaviour does not happen with other RF-Based input devices, like an RF Mouse.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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