23 Mar
2005
23 Mar
'05
9:40 p.m.
On 22/03/05 15:08:11, Spencer Russell wrote:
Wow, seems like you're having pretty much exactly
the same kinds
of troubles I've had, right down to the occasional keyboard
lockup. Maybe something strange with the via chipset? What sort
of computer are you using?
It says it's a Sharp but which Taiwanese company reallly makes it I
don't know. Anyway it has an Athlon XP1400 processor and VIA chipset.
My desktop, which works, is much older and has an Athlon 750 and AMD 756
chipset. On the desktop I have never been able to get the integrated
USB ports to work - Linux recognises the host controller but not
anything I plug into one of the ports. When I bought an MP3 player that
implements USB2.0 I ended up buying a USB2.0 PCI card which seems to
work fine with the MP3 player and with the US-122 (which appears to be
USB1.1). Interestingly the PCI USB card has a VIA chip on it too so
maybe it is something else in the VIA chipset on the laptop that is
causing trouble.
Steve.