I have Red Hat Linux 7.1 (kernel 2.4.3-12) installed on my computer which has Tomato TX100 motherboard with onboard VIA USB controller. Whenever I enable the USB controller from BIOS and boot into Linux, more often than not, it hangs before loading. The OS freezes (soft reboot does not work). Kudzu does detect the USB controller correctly (if the OS does not hang before Kudzu gets a chance to detect, that is). After configuring the USB controller, Linux does show a couple of boot time messages indicating successful mounting of 'USB filesystem' and initializing of USB controller. If Linux manages to load without hanging, GNOME successfully loads and then there is no problem.
The hardware does not seem to be at fault. Windows 98 (the other OS on my PC) identifies and configures the USB controller. I have successfully connected and worked with a couple of USB hardware with Windows 98 running. I used to face similar problem with Windows 95 OSR2 with USB supplement installed (which gave partial support for USB). It also detected and configured the USB controller but freezed some time after loading. I suppose that RHL 7.1 also supports USB partially. From this it seems to me that OS's not fully supporting USB have a problem with my motherboard. Is there any way of preventing RHL 7.1 from hanging with USB enabled (other than recompiling the kernel)? Thanks. Amol _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
