On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Lars Grunewaldt wrote:

> well yes I know, RTFM... but I did, and I have no clues :(

I did too, and found the solution buried somewhere, exectly _where_ i
can't remember but i do remember the solution.

Go into the system BIOS and disable APIC interrupts (set to PIC mode
instead).  There is a known bug in APIC interrupt handling in either the
USB2 driver or the USB2 APIC mapping for the VIA KT333 and VIA KT400
chipsets (at least).  I know the USB "people" are working on getting this
information into the FAQ.

If you don't see a setting for APIC vs. PIC interrupts in your board, you
may need to hit crtl-f1 to enable the "expert" options once you enter the
BIOS.

I had the exact same problem (devices would work under USB1.x but not
USB2.0), then I set the interrupt mode to PIC and everything is working
now.  I don't notice any performance problems caused by using PIC instead
of APIC, even though the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#$ board seems to want to map every single
device to IRQ11.

Hope this helps..

-dwild


> OK, I have a Asus A7V333-X which has an USB 2.0 controller. I use the
> uhci.o kernel module for USB 1.x support, and that works great (like,
> devices are recognized), and an up-to-date gentoo system with the
> ck6-kernel.
>
> Now I have an external harddrive with USB 2.0 capability. It works if I
> do not load the ehci-hcd module, but of course only as an USB 1.2 (or
> so) device. But it is recognized and works with usb-storage.
>
> But if I load the ehci-hcd module, nothing works any more. I think it's
> a problem with the IRQ routing, but I tried nearly anything that's
> possible (enabling/disabling plug&play-OS in BIOS, playing with the
> kernel parameters from the FAQ), but it only got worse (p&p enabled+
> kernel acpi=off =>> no more IRQ assignable...). I checked
> /proc/interrupts, and there are no more interrupts for acpi/uhci/ehci
> after the ehci-module is loaded, so it's really obvious that it has
> something to do with the IRQ routing.
>
> So, has anybody experiences with this motherboard and USB 2.0, or any
> other suggestion?
>
> thanks,
>   Lars
>
>
>
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