Bug 94273 – usb is not working (properly) with nforce4

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description BlinkEye 2005-05-28 05:21:06 UTC]

my usb mouse doesn't work with all kernel releases i tried. my mainboard is an a8n-sli  
with a nforce4 chipset. if i plug in the mouse, nothing happens at all, no warning, no  
error, nada. the interesting part is that my usb harddisk works. this is not a hardware  
issue as i've tried different mice and they all don't work - they do work in windooze.  
  
i do have mouse support enabled:  
  
 # confcat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep USB  
CONFIG_USB=y  
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y  
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y  
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT=y  
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y  
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y  
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y  
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_RW_DETECT=y  
CONFIG_USB_HID=y  
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y  
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y  
  
i tried  linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6,  inux-2.6.9-gentoo-r9, linux-2.6.11-ck8-r1,  
linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r7,  linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm1 - none of them works. i tried acpi and 
apm, acpi with acpi=noirq to no avail. 
  
  
  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot kernel. 
   
Actual Results:  
mouse isn't working. 

Expected Results:  
mouse is working. 

 # emerge info 
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 
2.6.9-gentoo-r9 x86_64) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 28 2005, 14:08:32)] 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5 
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present] 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13 
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r8 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-mtune=k8 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-mtune=k8 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://mirror.switch.ch/gentoo 
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ 
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.math.bme.hu 
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/gentoo.org/ 
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/" 
LC_ALL="en_US" 
LINGUAS="de" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds 
esd fam flac font-server fortran gcj gif gpm hal imagemagick imap imlib java jp2 jpeg 
junit kde locales logitech-mouse lzw lzw-tiff maildir mp3 ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg 
opengl oss pam perl png python qt readline sasl ssl symlink tcpd tiff truetype 
truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xine xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv zlib 
linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 BlinkEye 2005-05-28 05:22:16 UTC]

Created attachment 60008 [details]
"lscpi -v" output

[Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-05-31 16:41:07 UTC]

You have not enabled support for your USB1.1 host controller (OHCI).

[Comment 3 BlinkEye 2005-06-06 13:54:15 UTC]

yes, i removed that as this was suggested by some user to work. it doesn't work with 
OHCI enabled neither (although i haven't yet tried never kernel sources with it).