USB cards for PWS 433au
I recently retired an old AMD K6-III/450 system that had a serviceable
USB controller in it, so I tried transplanting it to my Alpha. The
kernel seems to detect it just fine and load the appropriate drivers,
but there's evidently a conflict of some kind between the USB card and
my Radeon 7500. Most solid regions of a KDE session screen have
vertical bars through them, and there is some strange tile "shading"
going on when I fire-up "kmahjongg". As far as the behavior of the USB
controller, I tried plugging-in an external USB harddrive that is known
to work properly with that controller card: the drive seems to work fine
until I attempt to write to it, at which point the system takes the
drive off-line, and nothing short of a system reboot allows it to work
again.
Any tricks I should know about to get things working? Maybe a BIOS
setting of some kind? I'm to the point of ripping out the USB card to see
if proper graphical console functionality can be restored :-(. Here's the
"lspci -v" output (non-root user) for my system:
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 24
I/O ports at 9400 [size=128]
Memory at 09270000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 09200000 [disabled] [size=256K]
Kernel driver in use: tulip
00:04.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 248
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
I/O ports at 9480 [size=16]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge (rev 43)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Radeon 7500
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 32
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at 09260000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at 09240000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: radeon
00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 255
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=255
I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff
Memory behind bridge: 09000000-090fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000009100000-00000000091fffff
01:09.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 40
I/O ports at 8000 [size=256]
Memory at 09000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at 09100000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Kernel driver in use: qla1280
01:0a.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 44
I/O ports at 8400 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
01:0a.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 45
I/O ports at 8420 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
01:0a.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 46
Memory at 09001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
--Bob
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