[Wine] WINE causing USB ports to shut down?

[James McKenzie]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:37 PM, steelisreal <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>   
>> I have been experiencing my USB ports shutting down the ones on the
>>  back and then the hub at the front.  This happens at a randon time and
>>  comes back only at reboot.   Through troubleshooting I have narrowed
>>  the issue down to happening when WINE is running.  I currently have
>>  not run WINE in two day and all ports are still working.
>>
>>  I am using Ubuntu 8.04 beta.
>>     
>
> Does it happen when you're just running Wine's notepad quietly in the
> background?
>
> Regardless, this sounds like a system problem, not a Wine problem.
> - Dan
>
>   
Dan:

 From what I remember that USB device drivers cannot be accessed 
directly by Wine.  I'm with you, this is a beta and might have a bug or two.

Also, I'm with you.  Run Notepad as a background task and see if the USB 
ports are disabled.  I'm thinking more a kernel problem in Ubuntu 8.04 beta.

James