Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>]

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On Monday 01 January 2007 10:01, "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...':
> On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If it useful, this is my lsmod:
> > ohci_hcd               21636  0
> > uhci_hcd               24648  0
> > ehci_hcd               33160  0
>
> I seem to recall that loading multiple USB controller drivers can
> cause problems on some systems.

I know my system (oddly enough) *requires* two different drivers, but that 
might just be my particular pieces of hardware.

In any case, I think at least one of these is redundant.

> You might try unloading all of these 
> with rmmod, then loading just one, and see if your drive will work.

Agreed.

> I 
> believe for most systems the ehci_hcd driver would be the preferred
> one.

Depends on your chipset.  I believe either lspci and/or lsusb should tell 
you which driver(s) you need.

> Posting your dmesg output might also help.

Agreed.

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