Another Linux newbie having trouble... USB, ACPI, Video

[tshelt]

I'm fairly new to Linux. I had played around a bit with RH9, but I found it slow and cumbersome. I had heard some good things about Gentoo, so I thought I'd give it a try. I knew off the bat that the installation would be more difficult - and that's fine. I figured it would be a good chance to learn . Any way, I got a basic system up and running no problem. Got X and KDE going. And found that in general things were much faster then my previous RH experince - plus my USB printer worked (never could get it to work under RH). Then I decided it was time to get my nVidia card working... That's when my trouble began....

I found lots of information on the web. And one site mentioned recompiling the kernel without ACPI support... Ok, I did that and woo! hoo!... My system stoped locking up every time X started and I had my hardware acceleration. But I noticed a side affect, and I was wondering if anyone new away around it... When I disabled ACPI - none of my USB devices were detected anymore (printer or scanner). I do a lsusb and nothing shows up except ports. There is not /dev/usb/lp0 anymore... It's the same thing that happend under RH. I know it isn't hardware since this is a dual boot setup with Windows XP and both the scanner and printer work just dandy... I'm not even sure what files to check? I'm sure there is some basic checking I could do - but I'm not sure what....

Anyway, here is a quick rundown of my hardware in case that makes a difference...

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo (nForce2 Chipset, AGP8X)
MSI GForce4 Ti 4200 with 128 MB DDR
AMD XP 2000+
256 MB RAM

The printer is and HP DeskJet 932C, plugged in USB. Any help, or suggestions on how to trouble shoot this so that I can have USB and great video would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks,
Tom

[NeddySeagoon]

tshelt,

Post the USB and Hotplug sections of you /usr/src/linux./.config Its something there. You should have hotplug enabled but both the options indented below it turned off.

I have similar hardware with power management disabled (I run Seti@Home) and my setup works OK.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon
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