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

["Robert W. Fuller" <orangemagicbus@sbcglobal.net>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Robert W. Fuller" <orangemagicbus@sbcglobal.net> 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 admit I remember when the default behavior of mail 
clients was to put the cursor at the bottom.

> How old is it, anyway?

Hmm.  I think I built it in 2000.  Wow, time flies when you're having fun!

>>Of course, I don't know how well video capture is going to work without 
>>the apic programming.  So I guess I'm reduced to rebooting when I want 
>>to switch between USB peripherals and video capture?
 >
> hm, you didn't mention video capture before.  It should work OK?

I've only ever used it with the APIC enabled.  We'll see what happens 
without?

> 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.

> You may be able to set the thing up by hand with the help of
> Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt.

I'll check it out.  Thanks!