On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:35:35AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Hi, Hendrik, > USB not functioning can be a problem, for me. I have one of these > mp3 player (usb storage). So far, it is working more or less ok, in > debian sarge with VIA KT600 Abit board. More or less because it is said > to be USB 2.0, but I get only ~800Kbps top, from it, which isn´t good > even for a 1.1. > Do you have any idea if the usb problems are nforce2 related or > A7N8X-X related? I mean, there can other boards with usb ok, using this > chipset? > Thanks for the info. Its nice to know details from the hw before you > put your money into it. Other searches I did say this chipset is ok, but > don´t give much detail. >
For all I know I may just have a bad chip on the motherboard or something, and thise boards may normally be just fine. I'd really like to hear from some other users of this board. -- hendrik > > Bruno > > > > > > > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:55:32PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > > > >>Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > >> > >>> I'm considering buying an abit with nforce2 chipset. How does Debian > >>>play with it? Any experiences? Another option would be the kt600 > >>>via-based boards. Is nforce2 worth the trouble, if any? > >>> > >>> > >>Nforce2 boards runs well (I've an a7n8x deluxe). > >> > >> > > > >I have an A7N8X-X running Debian sarge. Quite reliably, > >except for almost everything relating to the USB ports. > >I've been wondering if this is a hardware or software problem. > >Does anyone else have experience with this board? What kernel > >do you use? Did discover discover everything or did you have to > >override? Of so, how? > > > >I've *never* managed to get the USB ports to work reliably. > >USB thumb drives don't work at all. MP3 players don't work at all > >(I'm talking about those that pretend to be standard USP hard disks). > >All these work fine on another machine, in either sarge or Windows. > >The other machine does NOT have an NVidia chipset (but does have > >an NVidia graphics card). > > > >A 200GB IDE drive in a USB enclosure? Got one of these. It works > >for a few minutes, then conks out. I get to partition it and create > >a Reiser file system on it, but when I start transferring bulk data > >to it, it stope working. Same drive works fine with NTFS on Windows. > >But it might be the USB enclosure at fault, not the PC, because it > >fails when plugged in to the other sarge machine I mentioned above. > >MAybe it's not within spec, but Windows doesn't happen to pay attention > >to that piece of spec either. The IDE drive within it is fine. > >After I removed it from the USB enclosure, and connected it > >directly as an IDE drive, I could do all the things I couldn't through > >the UBS enclosure. > > > >By the way, I also have an Alphasmart, which interfaces to the computer > >as a USB keyboard. It works *perfectly*. It recognised the my Debian > >PC as an Apple Macintosh. I guess recent Macs *are* more like Linux > >systems than Windows. > > > >The store wants me to try this out on my own machine in Windows. They say > >that way they'll know if it's really a hardware problem. But Windows ME > >won't install (I have a partition free for it). It says the "drive" > >(i.e., partition) is not formatted corectly for it to install. But > >letting it format the partition reveals no problems, except that after > >it successfully formats it, it still complains that it is not formatted > >correctly. I suspect, though that this really *is* a partitioning > >problem, not a motherboard problem. > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]