Hi there, On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Kevin Barnhart wrote:
> I have an ACER Ferrari 3000 laptop which uses an Athlon XP-M 2500+ and a VIA > chipset. I'm running Fedora Core 1 straight up with the 2.4.22-1.2115-nptl. > It appears as though I'm having intermittent problems with USB devices > (mainly just use a mouse, but sometimes my MP3 player--a mass storage device) > regardless of XF86Config setup. The problem is not specific to the mouse. The problem is probably related to the VIA chipset. I failed to get USB working reliably on a 1.3G Duron/VIA machine despite trying kernels and configurations for months. All the 2.4.x kernels I tried would crash at the least provocation (e.g. unloading a USB module) although without USB I've run 2.2 systems for literally years without so much as a reboot. The only other problem I've had with 2.4 is with the IDE driver - and even that doesn't crash the OS, and I have a fix to test. The best USB result I got was with 2.6.0-test5 where at least I could mount and read a flash card without crashing the kernel, but then it wasn't possible to unmount and remount the card. USB 2.0 however was still not working for me and there were other problems with 2.6.0-test that I couldn't live with. At that point I stopped trying, but I keep reading reports on this list. There still seem to be problems with systems which worked on 2.4.x not now working with 2.6.0, and there's still a lot of work going into the USB sections of the kernel tree, so I suggest you keep trying with the most recent kernels. The changes don't always seem to be improvements, but be patient. I'm waiting for the same thing, although I'm not buying VIA systems any more. :) 73, Ged. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
