no USB mice detected on GA-MA74GM-S2
piotr.smyrak at heron.pl
piotr.smyrak at heron.pl
Sun Apr 12 22:58:27 UTC 2009
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:12:09 +0200, Michal Varga wrote
> 2009/4/12 <piotr.smyrak at heron.pl>:
> > On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:57:30 +0200, piotr.smyrak wrote
> >> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:49:25 +0200, Martin wrote
> >> > Am Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:08:05 +0200
> >> > schrieb Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak at heron.pl>:
> >> >
> >> > I'm overall satisfied with -CURRENT. I've always wanted to
> >> > say that FreeBSD developers do a really great job on the
> >> > -CURRENT branch. It's running very stable and has plenty
> >> > of new features. I know I shouldn't recommend to migrate
> >> > to -CURRENT, but I'm almost sure, it runs much better than
> >> > every -CURRENT I've seen before and sometimes I have the
> >> > impression that it's even nicer than the -STABLE branch.
> >>
> >> Well, I am not scared by -CURRENT at all, but I was
> >> hesitating to upgrade main build since it is after all a
> >> moving target and I would like to keep my main work horse
> >> as much steady as possible.
> >>
> > Sadly this is all I can get out of 8.0-CURRENT as of yesterday.
Both with BIOS option for "USB mouse support" on and
> > off.
>
> Don't bother with BIOS settings for "USB/keyboard mouse
> support", they won't help. This is a long standing (bios?)
> bug for *MANY* Gigabyte motherboards (like this one from 2007:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-
October/078191.html
> ). A quick workaround is to attach your mouse (or any
> other USB device that dies during boot - mices, keyboards,
> card readers, etc. do this with FreeBSD 6/7's usb1 and
> Gigabyte boards) -after- all USB drivers are loaded and
> initialized. That always works.
Unfortunately not in my case. I have tried this path before without
success.
> Also in one case I know of,
> having an external powered USB hub 'solved' the issue (if
> that counts as a fix).
> Still, having it properly fixed in usb1 drivers wouldn't
> hurt, of course,
How do you go about that? I mean fixing a device in usb1.1.
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Piotr Smyrak
piotr.smyrak at heron.pl
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