On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:00 +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:42 AM, John La Rooy wrote: > >> I have enabled that option in BIOS. > >> > > Could be that only some of the USB ports support the legacy function. > > Usually the ones on the back will work, whereas the front ones might not > > > > This is not the case. Apparently this chip set (Nvidia 630/620 with integrated > 7150/7100/7050) are not well supported by the open source community. > As I mentioned before, I could not boot Ubuntu 8.04 without setting the > "acpi=off pnpbios=off" option even though it is ok with Ubuntu 8.10. > And so far I have no lucks with any latest BSD versions (beta and > release). > > And the open source X driver has big problem with it as well. > I can only use Nvidia proprietary driver in order to get 1280x1024 > native resolution. > > As for the USB mouse/keyboard problems, it actually happened with > my old desktop as well (Nvidia NForce 3 chipset with AMD64). As one of the hosts of Mythbusters often says: well there's your problem. It's long been known that sometimes Linux+nVidia != fun. Personally, I try and stick with Intel chipsets whenever considering a Linux box. The only problems I've had were with other chipsets. While AMD chipsets seem fine, VIA ones are not great under Linux. I've said this before: when you go Linux you have to consider the hardware support. It's not a perfect world, but if you're careful with the hardware you choose you won't have these sorts of problems. It's frustrating sometimes, but it's the way it is. TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist