On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 11:07, Larry Sword wrote: > Larry Sword wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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 > > > > > > > ---------------- Situation Report -------------------------- > > 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
Larry, I seem to remember some talk here recently on this and someone mentioned that the NEC 2.0 USB card was the most reliable regardless of OS James > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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