Re: 2.6.11 USB broken on VIA computer (not just ACPI)

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:19:29PM -0500, Robert W. Fuller wrote:
> This isn't limited to the ACPI case.  My BIOS is old enough that ACPI is 
> not supported because the kernel can't find RSDP.  I found that the USB 
> works if I boot with "noapic."  This is probably sub-optimal on an SMP 
> machine.  If don't boot with "noapic" I get the following errors:

This is a _very_ old bug/issue.  The "noapic" boot paramater is the
proper fix for such broken hardware.

thanks,

greg k-h
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