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scereze
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:09 am    Post subject: [USB-OHCI] Gigabyte + Nforce2 Reply with quote

I just install my new motherboard, a gigabyte 400 pro (nforce2 ultra).
So far i've tried a 2.4.21 kernel and a gentoo-sources kernel, with or without acpi.
My problem is that i can't load the usb-ohci driver. Each time i try, the system is hanging and i have to reboot manually.

I read many things about this usb problem with nforce2, but didn't find any solutions for me.

Any idea ? thanks

seb
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a GA-7N400 Pro.
I am using ac-sources (2.4.22-pre10-ac1) with ACPI and APIC disabled.
This kernel seems to have a working driver for the Silicon Image SATA chip.
USB works too (I use a USB keyboard + mouse)
I only have the base system installed so far (from stage1), but it seems quite stable at this point.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I disabled the usb (mouse and keyboard) in the bios. Now it works. Is it the same on your mainboard ?

thanks

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found that the legacy support in the bios of my nforce 2 mb made my machine lockup and crash..
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The problems I had (so far) and worked around :
Enabling ACPI seemed to make everything run very slowly.
Enabling APIC prevented USB from working properly.
A buggy Silicon Image driver was locking-up the machine if DMA was enabled.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After two days of fight, i can run my new computer with the gigabyte 400-pro.
The important point in the install were:

- disable usb keyboard and mouse in the bios (use the serial keyboard for install).
- I used nofb nousb nohotplug as boot option with the lice-cd

for the kernel compilation:
- i am using the gs kernel so far
- disable acpi
- disable apic
- disable preempt-kernel and low latency (One of these two creates a kernel panic).
- enable input, mousedev, keydev to enjoy usb mouse and keyboard under X (load by hotplug)


For the nforce-audio module to load i had to enable the i810 module for sound. Then i add it in the hotplug blacklist. Hotplug is loading nvaudio and ac97_codec then. I didn't test the sound yet since i haven't bought speakers (just wanted to check :-) ).

I will make some test with others kernels later and others options.
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