Hello Well, I think that I have a good new about solving the problem. It seems that the kernel requires the following parameter : noapic. The laptop has been "working" since last evening .... and this morning it is still alive with a mouse and sound device working fine :-) !!!!! So it must be tested on a longer period in order to validate the option. I think that it is on the right way :-) The system behaviour when the problem occured suggested me that it was related to interruptions => apic. And it was proposed on a "64 bits linux" forum to use "noapic" for some distros (Mandrake for example). And this morning, after reinstallation of the nVidia driver (8178) I got no full freeze during 15 minutes !! Wonderfull, 2 problmes solved with noapic ! So, I suggest you try this option "noapic" at boot. You will tell me if your USB problem has disappeared :-). Question : why is "noapic" required for kernel >=2.6.11 and not for 2.6.8 and before ? Like you, I am not a specialist of the Linux kernel :-). I can see that your laptop is very similar, with the main chipset nForce3 150. Almost same laptop .... same problem. About PCMCIA, it was very hard to get it working perfectly. I tried several values for range and port in config.opts file. In fact, this is WinXP that helped me to find the right values : I took the values given by XP and put it in the config.opts file : bingo !! It works : modem card and network FA411 card. Hereafter my config file. With 32 bits kernel, it is easier :-) : no tuning ! Regards Pascal My confiq.opts file (tested with SuSE 9.2, SuSE 9.3, SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1) : # This are the official ports to use from pcmcia-cs, but ... # include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x800-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff # ... ports 0x810-0x81f hurt on some DELL machines and ... # ... ports 0x3b0-0x3df hurt on some FSC machines. #include port 0x100-0x4ff #include port 0x800-0x8ff #include port 0xc00-0xcff #include port 0x3000-0x7fff # according to lspci -vv for Cardbus #include port 0x0000-0xafff # #include port 0xb000-0xbfff #include port 0xc000-0xcfff # avec ceci, carte reseau FA411 montee en eth1 #include port 0xd000-0xffff # d'apres WinXP : include port 0xcc00-0xccff include port 0xd000-0xd0ff include port 0xd400-0xd4ff include port 0xdc00-0xdcff # d'apres lspci -vv decompose en 4 gammes #include port 0xb000-0xb7ff #include port 0xb800-0xbfff #include port 0xc000-0xc7ff #include port 0xc800-0xcfff # according to lspci -vv for Cardbus #include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000 # plage memoire relative au pont PCI (secondary=02) #include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfeafffff # d'apres WinXP : #include 0xfa200000-0xfa200fff #include 0xfb200000-0xfd1fffff #include 0xfd200000-0xfd200fff #include 0xfdaf5000-0xfeaf4fff #include 0xfeaf5000-0xfeaf5fff #include 0xfeaf6000-0xfeaf6fff #include 0xfeaf7000-0xfeaf7fff #include 0xfeafc000-0xfeafcfff include memory 0xfa200000-0xfeafcfff # decomposition en 2 => ne marche pas : carte non visible #include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfa1ff000 #include memory 0xfba00000-0xfd1ff000 # decomposition en 4 => ne marche pas : carte non visible #include memory 0xf8a00000-0xf95ff000 #include memory 0xf9600000-0xfa1ff000 #include memory 0xfba00000-0xfc5ff000 #include memory 0xfc600000-0xfd1ff000 # # High port numbers do not always work... # include port 0x1000-0x17ff # Extra port range for IBM Token Ring #include port 0xa00-0xaff # Resources we should not use, even if they appear to be available # First built-in serial port exclude irq 4 # Second built-in serial port #exclude irq 3 # First built-in parallel port exclude irq 7 ===================================================== De: Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas Objet: Re: [suse-amd64] PCMCIA [Was: X.org, USB optical mouse and SuSE 9.3 AMD64 : bad behaviour at 3 (components) !] Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:50:32 -0500 À: patheve2 cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Hi, Pascal. Altough I do not have a solution to your USB problems, below I try to answer some other questions you posted. I have attached the output of 'lspci -v' run as root. I have the nVidia chipset and the 64 MB nVidia 440 togo card (although, mysteriously, it shows as 32 MB in lspci). Our laptops do not have identical hardware, but pretty similar. With earlier versions of 64-bit SuSE I had to run 'setpci -s 0:a.0 SUBORDINATE_BUS=0A' to make it see the PCMCIA. I will refer you to this web site about my laptop, where you can find other configuration files, if that my help: http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 There is also a very useful wiki page: http://prinsig.se/weekee/ PCMCIA setup and example configuration files are discussed extensively in the above wiki page. Here is the "meat" of my '/etc/pcmcia/config.opts' file for reference (you may need to modify the setpci command above and this file to suit yhour hardware as per the output of the the lspci command run on your system): include port 0x100-0x3af, port 0x3e0-0x4ff include port 0x820-0x8ff, port 0xc00-0xcff include memory 0xc0000-0xfffff include memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff, memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff # High port numbers do not always work... # include port 0x1000-0x17ff # Extra port range for IBM Token Ring include port 0xa00-0xaff (The last line probably is not needed.) Bear in mind that starting with SuSE 10 (and, if I remember correctly, 9.3) radical changes in handling hot-pluggable events were put into effect. Whereas before 9.3 USB was handled by hotplug and PCMCIA --separately-- by cardctl, now ALL hotplug events (USB _AND_ PCMCIA included together) are handled by hald ("hald" probably stands for "Hardware Abstraction Layer Dæmon," but don't quote me on this). Kernels after,I think, 2.6.11 got better at detecting devices in subordinate busses. I am not sure whether the 'setpci' command I described above is needed any more, but I retained it in '/etc/rc.d/boot/local'. Also, please note that as of SuSE 10 (and perhaps SuSE 9.3) the 'cardctl' command has been changed to 'pccardctl'. The hot-pluggability system seems to be in a state of flux. As I said, I observed subtle changes to the syntax of the /etc/udev/*.rules files going from SuSE 9.3 to SuSE 10, most notably the use of double equals ( == ) for comparisons. I hope all this helps. Let us know what you find out, if setpci made any difference in recognizing your PCMCIA. The output of 'lspci -v' run as root on my system follows. Regards, Gus Fantanas PS. Starting with kernel 2.6.13, SATA support has been strengthened. This to answer your question about kernels, although it probably does not concern us because our machines are equipped with parallel IDE. I am not a kernel expert, though. 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Host Bridge (rev a4) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at 00000000e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 LPC Bridge (rev a6) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0c80 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce3 SMBus (rev a4) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 10 I/O ports at 2040 [size=64] I/O ports at 2000 [size=64] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0c80 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 193 Memory at 00000000e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0c80 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 201 Memory at 00000000e0001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 2.0 (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0c80 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 201 Memory at 00000000e0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 209 I/O ports at 1400 [size=256] I/O ports at 1c00 [size=128] Memory at 00000000e0002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d9 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 193 I/O ports at 1800 [size=256] I/O ports at 1c80 [size=128] Memory at 00000000e0003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 IDE (rev a5) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0c80 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at 2080 [size=16] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=128 I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00007fff Memory behind bridge: e0100000-e17fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 50000000-53ffffff 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 AGP Bridge (rev a4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=10 Memory behind bridge: e2000000-e2ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f80fffff 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map Flags: fast devsel 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller Flags: fast devsel 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control Flags: fast devsel 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 217 Memory at 00000000e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at 00000000f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at 00000000f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 00000000f8080000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 177 Memory at 00000000e0108000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Memory at 00000000e0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 185 I/O ports at 7000 [size=256] Memory at 00000000e0108800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 12f4 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at 00000000e0104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 177 Memory at 00000000e0106000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 50000000-51fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: e0400000-e07ff000 I/O window 0: 00003000-000030ff I/O window 1: 00003400-000034ff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 185 Memory at 00000000e0107000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 52000000-53fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: e0c00000-e0fff000 I/O window 0: 00003800-000038ff I/O window 1: 00003c00-00003cff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI1620 Firmware Loading Function (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at 7400 [size=64] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2