The USB ports on the nVidia MCP78S chipset motherboards do not function correctly. The board I have is an ECS GF8200A with the GeForce 8200 graphics card on the motherboard.
The motherboard will boot up with the USB ports active and functional as I can boot from a USB stick normally. However, when booting into Ubuntu (9.10 Karmic in this case), the USB ports have intermittent issues.
- As long as a device is plugged into a USB port prior to booting into Ubuntu, it is recognized and found. If not, it will not be detected. As an example, a USB stick will light up (SanDisk Cruzer in this case) as long as it is inserted before boot. If the device is inserted after Ubuntu is loaded, the device does not light up and no power is given to the device.
- Devices will quit working unexpectedly even if they are plugged in beforehand. I have tried two different BlueBooth USB Dongles (a Microsoft one that came with a keyboard/mouse combination and a Kensington dongle). The dongles will allow the keyboard/mouse to work for an indeterminate amount of time before they fully stop working.
This is running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic 64-bit.
Later this evening I am going to shut off the USB controller on the motherboard and install a NEC PCI USB add-in card to hopefully circumvent the problem for now.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer', '/dev/sequencer', '/dev/sequencer2'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf7f78000 irq 21'
Mixer name : 'SigmaTel 92HD206X'
Components : 'HDA:83847645,10192814,00100402'
Controls : 37
Simple ctrls : 24
Date: Mon Oct 19 13:18:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=942ea6b9-009d-44cd-a951-2951cd00ab55
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
pan0 no wireless extensions.
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 047d:105e Kensington Bluetooth EDR Dongle
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: ECS GeForce 8000 series
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=41fffde6-0980-4ca0-bedd-4ccc1d5f9a28 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.24
RfKill:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:2541): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:2541): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2658): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:2652): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
dmi.bios.date: 08/27/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080015
dmi.board.name: GeForce 8000 series
dmi.board.vendor: ECS
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: ECS
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080015:bd08/27/2009:svnECS:pnGeForce8000series:pvr1.0:rvnECS:rnGeForce8000series:rvr1.0:cvnECS:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GeForce 8000 series
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ECS
LSPCI log.