A7V8X and USB - was Re: internal computer temperatures

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 2:04 pm, Chris Ampenberger wrote:
> I have an A7V8X-X and the USB support on Linux is a source of frustration.
> I spend quite some time and can only get it partially working. It seems to
> be an interrupt sharing problem with the nforce chipset. If I disable most
> of the internal devices (com, sound, etc), so that I have a dedicated

You mean disabling in the BIOS?  I'll have to try that.  I'm not using the 
on-board sound or LAN.  And obviously I'm not using the Serial ATA.

> interrupt for each of the 2 USB 1.1 controllers and one for the USB 2.0
> controllers, I get 2 ports to work with my card reader and my Zaurus.

Now you lost me.  I'm looking in the manual right now and it talks of 6 USB2.0 
ports.  In fact, according to 
http://www.asus.com/progspec.asp?m=A7V8X-X&langs=01
yours is the same.

> Unfortunately that doesn't help me, since I need COM1 for my old digital
> camera. So now I'm back to one USB port and a hub. I have not even tried my
> APC UPS yet.

I have a USB-based APC UPS and that is working for me.  I have seen the daemon 
silently die on two occasions in the past few weeks though.  Not that this 
surprised me what with all the other troubles I've had with this box.

> In retrospect, I should have rather bought a board with a VIA chipset.

Maybe I'll offer to swap with someone for a simpler Socket A board.  Doing the 
math, even if I bought a board with no on-board anything but plenty of slots 
for about $50, then spent another $50 on USB and firewire cards, I would have 
been ahead of the game over this motherboard.

One more thing- did you get sensors working to monitor the temperatures?

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