On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:16:24PM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I own a Iwill XA100+ board with a ALI M1541 chipset and a
> > > 20Go UDMA66 IBM harddisk.
> >
> > (stuff skipped)
> >
> > > * i have a new usb trackball, but ti am not able to load
> > > the usb-ohci
> > > module, because it don't find an irq for usb (irq 5 under
> > > windows, the
> > > module reports irq 0 and suggest using pci=biosirq, which
> > > don't help.
>
> <much snippage>
>
> Aigh! Ack! Ack!
>
> Feeling real bad now for not following through on my bug reports on
> this!
>
> Sven, I have this board too and have had the same problems. Out of
> curiosity, what date does the computer say your BIOS is during boot?
Will do, ...
> I worked around this problem myself by swapping in an identical
> board with an older BIOS version which assigned an IRQ to the USB HC at
> boottime. Just after this I got some response on the problem, and have
> not yet bothered to swap the boards back. I can do this now, if anyone
> thinks it could be helpful.
putting and older bios stricks me as a suboptimal solution, ...
It would be nice to have an open source bios also, ...
> Here, FWIW, is lspci -vv on my current setup (the one on which USB
> works.)
Well, it is using irq11, that irq is used by my graphic board already, Could
this be the cause of the problem ?
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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