no USB mice detected on GA-MA74GM-S2

Chris Rees utisoft at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 9 12:12:08 UTC 2009


2009/4/9  <piotr.smyrak at heron.pl>:
> On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:48:04 -0500, Robert Noland wrote
>> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 21:08 +0200, Piotr Smyrak wrote:
>> >
>> > I recently upgraded my system to newer hardware with
> motherboard
>> > GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 Rev 1.0 with AMD 740G chipset (north
> bridge)
>> > and AMD SB700 (south) where USB support is located. Everything
>> > would be fine except there is no USB mice detection by FreeBSD
> at
>> > all. And I am stuck with USB mise since the mobo has no PS/2
> port.
>> >
>> > First I started with my old build of 6.2, then upgraded to 6.4
>> > STABLE, to finally upgrade to 7.2 PRERELEASE in hope of fixing
> the
>> > issue. None of versions gave me USB mouse support. I have tried
>> > connecting 3 various mice. No luck. The only effect I can
> achieve
>> > after connecting a mouse, is a somewhat delayed message on
> console:
>>
>> rebuild/reinstall devel/libpciaccess now that you have
>> updated kernel.
>
> I think I was not clear in my first post. My issue is the kernel
> does not recognizes my USB mice, so I get no /dev/ums* devices at
> all.
>
> I have made a clean install of all my ports after upgrade. Thanks
> for your suggestion.
> --
>  Piotr Smyrak
>  piotr.smyrak at heron.pl
>
> _______________________________________________
>

Is your BIOS up to date? I know of many Gigabyte mainboards with a USB
stack bug, which is fixed with the latest images. Be careful if you do
that though!

Chris

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