MPS Table Versions and not VIA chipset (maybe OT)

[Alma J Wetzker]

Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 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.
> 

That is a nice bit of detective work.  Thanks for the heads up.

     -- Alma