Help! - USB HC TakeOver failed!

["Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr." <diogenes vgernet net>]

Nobody answered this before.  Is this a really tough one?
Can anybody give suggestions?

I'm brand new to Linux.  I have a socket 7 system on which I installed Red 
Hat 9, clean and alone, but the installation reports an error in the USB area.

I'm getting "USB HC TakeOver failed!"

A couple of weeks of searching and reading has not gotten me any closer to 
understanding what's wrong or how to fix it.

I've tried switching from ohci to uhci, but I got the same error message, 
and, from what I read, I think the SiS 7001 controller is an ohci device.

Can anyone suggest what's wrong?

Based on some of the messages I've read, below are some system facts that 
may help diagnose the cause.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ralph Kenyon

From the Kernel Startup Log:
Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile stripples devel redhat com) (gcc version 
3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 16:42:56 EST 2003
...
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc8026000, IRQ 9
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
usb-ohci.c: USB HC TakeOver failed!
Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (c8026000)
c739ded0 00001000 c80244fc c8024f80 c14b1c00 00000000 c01bd961 c14b1c00
       c80244fc c14b1c00 c8024f80 00000000 c8020000 c01bd9f7 c8024f80 
c14b1c00
       ffffffea 00000001 00000001 c8023c4c c8024f80 ffffffea c011b202 
c8024624
Call Trace:   [<c80244fc>] ohci_pci_ids [usb-ohci] 0x1c (0xc739ded8))
[<c8024f80>] ohci_pci_driver [usb-ohci] 0x0 (0xc739dedc))
[<c01bd961>] pci_announce_device [kernel] 0x21 (0xc739dee8))
[<c80244fc>] ohci_pci_ids [usb-ohci] 0x1c (0xc739def0))
[<c8024f80>] ohci_pci_driver [usb-ohci] 0x0 (0xc739def8))
[<c01bd9f7>] pci_register_driver [kernel] 0x57 (0xc739df04))
[<c8024f80>] ohci_pci_driver [usb-ohci] 0x0 (0xc739df08))
[<c8023c4c>] ohci_hcd_init [usb-ohci] 0x1c (0xc739df1c))
[<c8024f80>] ohci_pci_driver [usb-ohci] 0x0 (0xc739df20))
[<c011b202>] sys_init_module [kernel] 0x4a2 (0xc739df28))
[<c8024624>] .kmodtab [usb-ohci] 0x0 (0xc739df2c))
[<c8020060>] ohci_mem_init [usb-ohci] 0x0 (0xc739df58))
[<c0109103>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xc739dfc0))
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech suse cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers


[root localhost root]# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:    4005967          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       3715          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  6:         41          XT-PIC  floppy
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
 10:      19234          XT-PIC  eth0
 11:      13062          XT-PIC  cmpci
 12:     214969          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14:      41955          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         80          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0


[root localhost root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
nls_cp437               5116   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   11948   1  (autoclean)
fat                    36792   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
nls_iso8859-1           3484   2  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 33436   1  (autoclean)
cdrom                  31040   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
udf                    91712   0  (autoclean)
cmpci                  33064   0  (autoclean)
soundcore               6116   4  (autoclean) [cmpci]
agpgart                44544   0  (unused)
parport_pc             17508   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8580   0  (autoclean)
parport                33952   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 12148   0  (autoclean) (unused)
tulip                  42464   1
ipt_REJECT              3672   6  (autoclean)
iptable_filter          2316   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              14488   2  [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
keybdev                 2720   0  (unused)
mousedev                5204   0  (unused)
hid                    20772   0  (unused)
input                   5632   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usbcore                73088   1  [hid]


[root localhost root]# lspci -v
...
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB 
Controller (rev 11) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
        Memory at efffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]