Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-16 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:50:38PM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:58:50AM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote: > >>>Are you running the latest BIOS? > >>The manufacturer, Tyan, didn't produce more than a handful of BIOS'es > >>within a matter of months afte

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-16 Thread Robert W. Fuller
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:58:50AM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote: Are you running the latest BIOS? The manufacturer, Tyan, didn't produce more than a handful of BIOS'es within a matter of months after they started producing the board. They haven't released an update since 2000. I

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-16 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:58:50AM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote: > >Are you running the latest BIOS? > > The manufacturer, Tyan, didn't produce more than a handful of BIOS'es > within a matter of months after they started producing the board. They > haven't released an update since 2000. I us

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-16 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:19:29PM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote: > This isn't limited to the ACPI case. My BIOS is old enough that ACPI is > not supported because the kernel can't find RSDP. I found that the USB > works if I boot with "noapic." This is probably sub-optimal on an SMP > machin

Re: Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt (Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI))

2005-03-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 16 mars 2005 Ã 11:00 +0100, Xavier Bestel a Ãcrit : > Le mardi 15 mars 2005 Ã 21:54 -0800, Andrew Morton a Ãcrit : > > You may be able to set the thing up by hand with the help of > > Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt. > > There's something I don't get in this document's ascii-art: > > 8

Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt (Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI))

2005-03-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mardi 15 mars 2005 Ã 21:54 -0800, Andrew Morton a Ãcrit : > You may be able to set the thing up by hand with the help of > Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt. There's something I don't get in this document's ascii-art: 8<--

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-15 Thread Robert W. Fuller
Andrew Morton wrote: "Robert W. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nobody's going to fix that machine while you persist in top-posting ;) OK OK. No more top posting. It's Mozilla's fault you know It steers you in the wrong direction by leaving a few lines at the top. Yes I'm ashamed to adm

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
"Robert W. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suppose you have to have your priorities. It may be old to you, but > it's current to me! That used to be the hallmark of Linux, the fact > that it would run on lesser hardware. Nobody's going to fix that machine while you persist in top-post

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-15 Thread Robert W. Fuller
I suppose you have to have your priorities. It may be old to you, but it's current to me! That used to be the hallmark of Linux, the fact that it would run on lesser hardware. Of course, I don't know how well video capture is going to work without the apic programming. So I guess I'm reduced

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-15 Thread Robert W. Fuller
I never actually saw it work until I added the noapic option to the 2.6.11.2 boot. Now I can usually my USB mouse! Of course the downside to specifying noapic is only one CPU is servicing interrupts on my SMP system. It certainly doesn't work under 2.4.28, but I haven't tried specifying noap

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
"Robert W. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I never actually saw it work until I added the noapic option to the > 2.6.11.2 boot. Now I can usually my USB mouse! Of course the downside > to specifying noapic is only one CPU is servicing interrupts on my SMP > system. Oh, OK. I was j

Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Morton
"Robert W. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This isn't limited to the ACPI case. My BIOS is old enough that ACPI is > not supported because the kernel can't find RSDP. I found that the USB > works if I boot with "noapic." This is probably sub-optimal on an SMP > machine. If don't bo