Date: 10 Jul 2002 21:34:57 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do VIA 83C572 USB controllers suck or is it just me? Message-ID: <1026362098.33520.18.camel@johncoop.borgsdemons.com> In-Reply-To: <3D2CFC98.8010803@quack.kfu.com> References: <3D2CFC98.8010803@quack.kfu.com>
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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 20:33, Nick Sayer wrote:
> I have a desktop machine with an Asus A7V133 motherboard. It's based
> around the VIA KT133A chipset. I tend to have a lot more problems with
> USB devices (under FreeBSD) on these controllers than with, say, my Vaio
> laptop, which purports to be based on the Intel 440 BX chipset (with a
> PIIX4 USB controller).
>
> The latest outrage is that I am doing some work on a USB audio device
> driver to clean it up a bit. It works *perfectly* plugged into the Vaio,
> but when it's plugged into the Asus machine, I get a trap panic the
> instant I try and play anything. I can't diagnose the trap because the
> dump doesn't happen, for unknown reasons.
>
> I'm almost at the point of going out and getting a PCI USB controller
> card for the damn thing.
>
> Is it just me?
>
Well, my DFI AK74-EC works fine with USB devices (ZIP drive and a
camera) and has the KT133A chipset.
The only limitation I have experienced is camera (and not motherboard)
related--my Fuji FinePix 4900Z is recognized only at a ugen and not as a
umass. I'm still scratching my head on that one. But the USB works
fine otherwise.
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