USB mouse not working on 8.0-RELEASE

[Ondřej Majerech]

2009/11/23 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>:
> On Monday 23 November 2009 19:04:22 Ondřej Majerech wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've just upgraded my box to 8.0-RELEASE (FreeBSD starlight
>> 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #9: Mon Nov 23 17:52:12 CET 2009
>> root at starlight:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STARLIGHT  i386) via csup'ing to
>> RELENG_8_0 and the usual suite of buildworld, buildkernel,
>> installkernel, mergemaster -p, installworld, mergemaster.
>>
>> My USB mouse doesn't work now.  While booting, I can see error
>> messages from the USB part of the kernel; the same messages also
>> reappear when I disconnect and reconnect the thing.  They read the
>> following: (Grabbed from /var/log/messages after having dis- and
>> re-connected the mouse.)
>>
>> Nov 23 18:54:19 starlight kernel: usb_alloc_device:1586: set address 2
>> failed (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored)
>> Nov 23 18:54:20 starlight kernel: usb_alloc_device:1624: getting
>> device descriptor at addr 2 failed, USB_ERR_TIMEOUT!
>> Nov 23 18:54:21 starlight kernel: usbd_req_re_enumerate:1539: addr=2,
>> set address failed! (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored)
>> Nov 23 18:54:22 starlight kernel: usbd_req_re_enumerate:1553: getting
>> device descriptor at addr 2 failed, USB_ERR_TIMEOUT!
>> Nov 23 18:54:24 starlight kernel: usbd_req_re_enumerate:1539: addr=2,
>> set address failed! (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored)
>> Nov 23 18:54:25 starlight kernel: usbd_req_re_enumerate:1553: getting
>> device descriptor at addr 2 failed, USB_ERR_TIMEOUT!
>> Nov 23 18:54:25 starlight kernel: ugen0.2: <(null)> at usbus0
>> (disconnected) Nov 23 18:54:25 starlight kernel: uhub_reattach_port:435:
>> could not allocate new device!
>>
>> The mouse was working without any problems whatsoever on 8.0-RC3 and
>> all older FBSD versions that I used.
>>
>> Other USB devices work as they should, without producing anything
>> unusual in dmesg.
>>
>> So, what's up?  Any clues?
>
> Hi,
>
> This looks like a regression issue. There has been some changes with regard to
> USB legacy support handling. Try disabling USB legacy support in the BIOS or
> try to see if the problem is present in a 9-current kernel.
>
> Thanks for reporting your issue!
>
> --HPS
>
>

The only option in my BIOS regarding legacy USB is "Legacy USB storage
detect" -- I set this one to Disabled and booted with the mouse
disabled -- when I connected it to the running system, it got detected
properly, but it simply wouldn't work in X.

When I rebooted with the mouse plugged in, the same thing as before
happened -- error messages during boot, and un- and re-plugging
produced the same errors.

I'll try 9-CURRENT sometime tomorrow and report back how that turned out.

~ Ondra