From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EyOs3-0006JS-EU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:33:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0G7Vnt9004943; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:31:49 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (cumulus.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0G7TnLH013265 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:29:50 GMT Received: from orpheus (unknown [150.101.6.82]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D4A7D190 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:29:45 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060116071704.GA11514@princeton.edu> References: <1137393538.17254.12.camel@orpheus> <20060116071704.GA11514@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:59:37 +0930 Message-Id: <1137396577.17284.14.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 480674bf-1653-4e89-ab7b-ba0721945491 X-Archives-Hash: e08697ea9b4ec5847d6cea974fcc8dc1 On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 02:17 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:08:58PM +0930, Penguin Lover Iain Buchanan squawked: > > I noticed I had uhci-hcd loaded (the usb 1 module?) so I unloaded it, > > and my keyboard stopped working!!! So using the laptop keyboard, I > > replugged the HD (now without uhci-hcd) and it still goes slow... > > uhci-hcd is the driver for the intel USB host controller, so if you > unload that, it is natural that it killed your (presumeably USB) > keyboard. > > the driver for USB2.0, incidentally, should be ehci-hcd, and according > to the kernel docs, if you have ehci built (grep USB_EHCI > /usr/src/linux/.config), it will use USB2.0 on enabled devices. > > So, the question is, did you compile your kernel with EHCI support? Yes, I should have mentioned that: I'm using ehci. I unloaded uhci. I'm not using the old slow usb-block-device driver either. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list