[SOLVED] Re: Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro USB does not work under Ubuntu 8.04.

[NoOp]

On 05/01/2008 01:16 PM, Bo Peng wrote:
>>  > 1. When the PCTV usb stick is plugged in, Ubuntu can not boot. It
>>  > freezes before the desktop is started. (Ctrl-Alt-Del would reboot the
>>  > machine).
>>
>>  This is not unusual, and I don't think there's a way around it if you
>>  actually want to be able to boot off USB.  If you have told the BIOS to
>>  include USB in the boot order, ahead of your hard drive, then you can't
>>  connect any unbootable USB storage media before booting.  otoh, if you
>>  don't intend to boot from USB in the near future, just go into the BIOS set
>>  up and turn it off.
> 
> 
> No. This is different.
> 
> The USB device is set in BIOS to boot after local harddrive. With the
> USB device plugged in, Ubuntu can boot, but would freeze before the
> user desktop starts. When I press Ctrl-Alt-Del, the first shutdown
> message is something like 'stop gnome windows manager'.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bo
> 

I ran into that on an older intel machine. When the USB stick was in the
front USB port the machine had problem booting. Take out the stick and
the machine booted fine. Move the stick to the back USB port and the
machine would boot. Can't recall where exactly I found the answer, but
upgrading the bios eventually solve that problem for me.