Thank you all for the dmesg tip. Following is a copy of my startup. Can anyone give me a tip on any potential problems or inefficiencies noted here - in particular the messages regarding my USB setup.
Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 00000000000e4000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff0000 - 0000000017ff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff8000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 98288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 94192 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdc6 ro BOOT_IMAGE=linux.bin Initializing CPU#0 Detected 748.578 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1490.94 BogoMIPS Memory: 383660k/393152k available (1783k kernel code, 9104k reserved, 549k data, 280k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c3fbff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 748.5605 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 199.6161 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 1996161, slice: 998080 CPU0<T0:1996160,T1:998080,D:0,S:998080,C:1996161> mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0 PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Journalled Block Device driver loaded vga16fb: initializing vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 1b) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SDR-430, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ST328040A, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdc: 55704096 sectors (28520 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=55262/16/63 hda: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv Partition check: hdc: [PTBL] [3467/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Loading I2O Core - (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software I2O configuration manager v 0.04. (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Compaq CISS Driver (v 2.4.5) HDLC support module revision 1.02 for Linux 2.4 Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994 Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak. ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01 No raid array found SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver, Apr 14 2002 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:06.0 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.4 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173LW Rev: 6246 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:A:0): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) Vendor: HP Model: C2520A Rev: 3503 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 8 DC390: 0 adapters found 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.016. 3w-xxxx: No cards with valid units found. Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 17783240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB) sda: sda1 i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.0.1 chain_pool: 0 bytes @ c16494c0 (512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed Adding Swap: 289128k swap-space (priority -1) EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide1(22,6), internal journal spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:29:43 Apr 14 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:03.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xcc00, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 usb.c: registered new driver keyboard usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:03.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2 eth0: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:90:27:CB:08:F9, IRQ 9. Board assembly 721383-007, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 321M agpgart: Detected AMD Irongate chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000 [drm] AGP 0.99 on AMD Irongate @ 0xe0000000 128MB [drm] Initialized r128 2.1.6 20010405 on minor 0 gameport0: Emu10k1 Gameport at 0xdc00 size 8 speed 1269 kHz mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: faking semi-colon parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 2100 Series parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... MIDI Loopback device driver YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 3 Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.18, 10:29:21 Apr 14 2002 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:05.0 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x8040 found, IO at 0xc800-0xc81f, IRQ 11 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23) usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE] NET4: Linux IPX 0.47 for NET4.0 IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva, Inc. IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: unable to get descriptor usb.c: unable to get device 3 configuration (error=-110) hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 4 usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: unable to get descriptor usb.c: unable to get device 4 configuration (error=-110) hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/2, assigned device number 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x545/0x800c) is not claimed by any active driver. hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/3, assigned device number 6 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1691 input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft] on usb1:6.0 hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1/4, assigned device number 7 input1: Chicony USB Mobile Numeric Keypad on usb1:7.0 And here's a copy of my interrupts file: CPU0 0: 29082 XT-PIC timer 1: 972 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 9: 755 XT-PIC usb-uhci, eth0 10: 90 XT-PIC aic7xxx 11: 0 XT-PIC EMU10K1 14: 9 XT-PIC ide0 15: 97329 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 29044 ERR: 9 MIS: 0 Thanx, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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