From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 10 21:34:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08ED037B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A20B43E8A for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: from pc016247.reshall.uidaho.edu (HELO johncoop.borgsdemons.com) (john?m?cooper@129.101.136.30 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Jul 2002 04:34:11 -0000 Subject: Re: Do VIA 83C572 USB controllers suck or is it just me? From: John Merryweather Cooper Reply-To: john_m_cooper@yahoo.com To: Nick Sayer Cc: FreeBSD Stable In-Reply-To: <3D2CFC98.8010803@quack.kfu.com> References: <3D2CFC98.8010803@quack.kfu.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 10 Jul 2002 21:34:57 -0700 Message-Id: <1026362098.33520.18.camel@johncoop.borgsdemons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- _ | |V| / ' || MacroHard -- \ \_| | | \_, || the perfection of form over | ----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over | Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over | AIM: johnmcooper || design . . . | =====================================================================/ Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc | =====================================================================\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message