From khim@sch57.msk.ru Tue Mar 19 10:17:57 2002 Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 16:20:45 +0300 (MSK) From: Khimenko Victor To: jslupski@email.com Subject: USB patch helps FX290 as well I've used your USB patch with my SONY VAIO PCG-FX290 and it works ! USB worked just fine without any such patch before I tried to install XP (successfully, but it's other story) and upgraded BIOS as SONY suggests. After that I got big (almost fatal) problem with Linux: keyboard does not work with Linux anymore. Oops. Ok, let's try to use USB keyboard (actually normal PS/2 keyboard connected to Targus PA070). No luck: USB is broken as well. Quick search on Google sent me to your page (first link as usual for Google :-), I've recompiled kernel, installed USB keyboard support and voila: ...built-in keyboard works! External USB (from computer viewpoint, anyway) keyboard also works but that's to be expected. God knows why but built-in keyboard works *only* when I load uhci or usb-uhci module. Something is really scrwed up in latest SONY's BIOS :-/ On other hand I've got solid lockup every time I tried to use ACPI with old BIOS, so I can not say that latest BIOS is broken and early one is not - they both are broken but in different way :-( Big thnx for the patch - it works like a charm here and my zoo of USB devices (keyboard, mouse, printer, flash-reader, USB-IRDA) are happy in both Linux and XP - now I have only one reason to keep XP (or any other Windows) around: video-editing... I tried many times to attack linux's IEEE 1394 subsystem but so far every time it just lock system hard ot reboot without messages in logs :-(( Grr... At least Linux survived on my comp thnx to your patch: linux without any keyboard support is not very usefull as workstation, but now it works even better then before (ACPI call does not lock system anymore)...