Re: support for nvidia nforce2?
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:35:35AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote:
> Hi, Hendrik,
> USB not functioning can be a problem, for me. I have one of these
> mp3 player (usb storage). So far, it is working more or less ok, in
> debian sarge with VIA KT600 Abit board. More or less because it is said
> to be USB 2.0, but I get only ~800Kbps top, from it, which isn´t good
> even for a 1.1.
> Do you have any idea if the usb problems are nforce2 related or
> A7N8X-X related? I mean, there can other boards with usb ok, using this
> chipset?
> Thanks for the info. Its nice to know details from the hw before you
> put your money into it. Other searches I did say this chipset is ok, but
> don´t give much detail.
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For all I know I may just have a bad chip on the motherboard or something,
and thise boards may normally be just fine. I'd really like to hear
from some other users of this board.
-- hendrik
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> Hendrik Boom wrote:
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> >On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:55:32PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
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> >>Bruno Buys <brunobuys@gmail.com> writes:
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> >>> I'm considering buying an abit with nforce2 chipset. How does Debian
> >>>play with it? Any experiences? Another option would be the kt600
> >>>via-based boards. Is nforce2 worth the trouble, if any?
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> >>Nforce2 boards runs well (I've an a7n8x deluxe).
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> >I have an A7N8X-X running Debian sarge. Quite reliably,
> >except for almost everything relating to the USB ports.
> >I've been wondering if this is a hardware or software problem.
> >Does anyone else have experience with this board? What kernel
> >do you use? Did discover discover everything or did you have to
> >override? Of so, how?
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> >I've *never* managed to get the USB ports to work reliably.
> >USB thumb drives don't work at all. MP3 players don't work at all
> >(I'm talking about those that pretend to be standard USP hard disks).
> >All these work fine on another machine, in either sarge or Windows.
> >The other machine does NOT have an NVidia chipset (but does have
> >an NVidia graphics card).
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> >A 200GB IDE drive in a USB enclosure? Got one of these. It works
> >for a few minutes, then conks out. I get to partition it and create
> >a Reiser file system on it, but when I start transferring bulk data
> >to it, it stope working. Same drive works fine with NTFS on Windows.
> >But it might be the USB enclosure at fault, not the PC, because it
> >fails when plugged in to the other sarge machine I mentioned above.
> >MAybe it's not within spec, but Windows doesn't happen to pay attention
> >to that piece of spec either. The IDE drive within it is fine.
> >After I removed it from the USB enclosure, and connected it
> >directly as an IDE drive, I could do all the things I couldn't through
> >the UBS enclosure.
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> >By the way, I also have an Alphasmart, which interfaces to the computer
> >as a USB keyboard. It works *perfectly*. It recognised the my Debian
> >PC as an Apple Macintosh. I guess recent Macs *are* more like Linux
> >systems than Windows.
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> >The store wants me to try this out on my own machine in Windows. They say
> >that way they'll know if it's really a hardware problem. But Windows ME
> >won't install (I have a partition free for it). It says the "drive"
> >(i.e., partition) is not formatted corectly for it to install. But
> >letting it format the partition reveals no problems, except that after
> >it successfully formats it, it still complains that it is not formatted
> >correctly. I suspect, though that this really *is* a partitioning
> >problem, not a motherboard problem.
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> >-- hendrik
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