USB NEWS FLASH! The latest hotplug upgrade from SID now installs uhci-hcd without its being requested in /etc/modules. This module still does not unload correctly, however, so I guess I need to blacklist it so I can shutdown normally ... ugh--blacklisting this does not work (the original usb-uhci had been blacklisted as well and always loaded--at least ext3 is working!). The new hotplug loads a lot of stuff, in fact: dmesg | grep usb drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver snd-usb-audio drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 snd-usb-audio: probe of 1-2:1.0 failed with error -5 snd-usb-audio: probe of 1-2:1.1 failed with error -5 drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver irda-usb drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver xpad drivers/usb/input/xpad.c: X-Box pad driver:v0.0.5 drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver audio drivers/usb/class/audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbserial drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0 drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for IR Dongle drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver ir-usb drivers/usb/serial/ir-usb.c: USB IR Dongle driver v0.4 drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbnet drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage (Those -5 errors apparently are not preventing the MIDI usb devices from operating. Can cat /dev/midi1 and see my key-presses.) However, the MIDI devices is the only one I have connected to one of the two (older system) USB ports. Should not hotplug load any of these other should I plug one of them in? I have no X-box, no dongles, no nothing.