MPS Table Versions and not VIA chipset (maybe OT)

[Ted Ozolins]

Over the years, I've put together a lot of pc's. Each time I've gone
into the BIOS setup gone through the various options. The one Item I've
never paid any attention to is the "MPS" (Multi-Processor Specification)
entry. The default use to be 1.1 however on the newer MBs, the default 
is 1.4. This is the puppy that rendered the USB ports on my KM2M
unusable under Linux(Gentoo). Changing  the MPS to version 1.1 got the
USB ports working.  Yes I did RTFM, google and dog-pile for quite some
time without any luck. Since changing the MPS was the only thing I
hadn't tried, I changed it to 1.1 and the USB came up nicely.  I then
changed it back 1.4 and lost the USB ports. The system is now up with
MPS 1.1 and all is working fine. Thus the fault was a miss configured
BIOS and not the VIA KM266 chipset.
   Is there an entry in the kernel config file to select this ?  I do
not recall anything anywhere that would. Then again this wouldn't be the
first time I've over-looked something.

Cheers.

-- 
Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C