-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:36 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 24 February 2003 05:17 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > I did not mean acpi, I meant apic. Despite the similarity of the > > acronym, they are different. Unfortunately, the people that come up with > > the names for this stuff don't realize that real people have to use it. > > > > APIC = Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller and it causes the usb > > problems that you have described. > > Praedor - did you try this? did it work?
I was screwing up my acronyms...if I disabled APIC in bios, 2.4.21 would refuse to even try to bootup. I tried the "noapic" switch but the behavior remains: 2.4.21 will not bootup even if I set "noapic" AND disable APIC in bios. If I enable APIC in bios, then, even with the "noapic" switch, it will bootup. I discovered my problem is a general USB problem too. I thought it was isolated to my wusb11, a problematic device anyway with a buggy driver. Yesterday, for the first time since installing 2.4.21, I needed to print a document. I have a USB HP Deskjet 845C that was working fine under MDK 8.2 and 9.0 with their respective kernels. With the 2.4.21 kernel (I have reported this to the cooker list) I am unable to use my printer. At first, it was just not seen at all. If I ran printerdrake, it just could not/would not see my usb port. I completely removed my printer and tried again to install my printer. Printerdrake now saw the USB port and set the printer up as /dev/usblp0. I setup the printer as usual from this point but it refused to print testpages or anything else for that matter. A look at my syslog showed messages indicating that the printer wasn't connected (it was just as connected as it was when printerdrake set it up to start with). Sending a testpage would add an entry to the jobs list but it would never complete. praedor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+W1jqwDUPEkSvRHERAjudAJsHK4C7YYIymzQKNQpkY7G+6MTATwCfStrp 3GsefKDJRsEf0UsLNcC4Bqg= =ZZ8l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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