Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally.---------------- Situation Report --------------------------
Abit VP-6 was running fine with the old kernel even though I had to add the "acpi=off" to the boot. But now with the new kernel I've lost all usb devices and the acpi=off or on doesn't make a difference. No mouse, no joystick, no radio and no anything off the usb bus.
Any thoughts on getting the usb devices back??
Larry
After of hours of troubleshooting, a few moments sleep, and suggestions from James Sparenberg and Greg Meyer the system stands as follows:
1. Abit VP-6 with VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset (VT82C694X and VT82C686B). My system has 2x pentium 1GB cpu.
2. The system will not assign an address or recognize any device off the onboard usb ports. This is with all the various switches used during boot. pci=noacpi acpi=off apic=off noapic.
3. There is a NEC 2.0 card installed in the machine.
4. The system now boot without any switches being used. The usb ports are all seen in usbview but will not assign address to the devices on the onboard ports.
5. The usb ports on the NEC 2.0 card is displayed and works fine with all the usb devices attached.
6 .Looks as if the new ML kernel as changed / corrected some problems with the acpi but not those on the VT82C686B on the Abit VP-6.
Thankfully I had the NEC card installed.
Larry
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