Compatible motherboards

Gregory Boyce gboyce at badbelly.com
Tue Dec 16 20:02:17 EST 2003


Not sure if this was tried yet or not, but you may want to play with
APIC and ACPI settings as well (enabling or disabling).  Especially
ACPI.  Some boards require it, some boards are broken when using ACPI
for IRQ handling.

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 09:22, Johannes B. Ullrich wrote:
> Recent kernels come with two different 'UHCI' modules:
> the 'regular' UHCI module, and the 'JE' UHCI module.
> Did you try them both? I don't think the majore distros include the 'JE'
> module.
> 
> usb-uhci.o is the 'regular' driver,
> uhci.o is the 'JE' driver...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Alternately, does anyone know any way to debug the USB problem?  Certain 
> > devices, like my USB flash ram drive (a 256MB Cruzer), and an external USB 
> > hard drive, are seen by usbview, and the motherboard beeps and all, but when 
> > ever I try to access them (by fdisk -l or mount or even cdrecord -scanbus), 
> > the process locks up and not even kill -9 will make it go away (killing its 
> > parent does).
> > 
> > Tanks.
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Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com>




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