no USB mice detected on GA-MA74GM-S2

[Boris Samorodov]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:36:30 +0200 piotr.smyrak at heron.pl wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:52:38 +1000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote
> > Michal Varga wrote:
> > > 2009/4/13  <piotr.smyrak at heron.pl>:
> > >> Yes, I'm 100% positive I tried plugging mouse after the boot up had
> > >> finished. Honestly I am late asking here. I was struggling with
> > >> this and looking for cases online for more than 2 weeks at least.
> > >> And I came across your thread from 2007, too.
> > >>
> > > That's really bad. Though closest I can find to your board with
> > > freebsd people I know is AMD770+SB600, while your is AMD740G+SB700,
> > > all of them dating back to my first AMD690G/V (and maybe prior to
> > > that) so far exhibited the same symptoms and the late-plug approach
> > > always worked.. Yours would be then the first one that Gigabyte
> > > botched even more (congrats). I guess that's one more reason to push
> > > on USB guys to finally fix it.
> > 
> > If it works with the OP's USB mouse, a USB -> PS/2 (male)
> >  adapter might at least get him running provided that the 
> > mobo has a PS/2 port... (I know at least some of the 
> > Gigabyte 780G boards do, but I don't have any USB mice...)

> Yes, it has a PS/2 port but it is occupied by my keyboard. Anyway, I have found a 
> workaround for my problems. To keep USB working in FreeBSD, all, even this 
> built-in smallest hub in my keyboard, have to be disconnected. Then when boot 
> finishes I can connect devices, and my mice are detected. Well, this is annoying 
> since it means diving under the desk every time computer boots, but at least I can 
> work now. 

I had similar problems until I played with USB options at BIOS.
Something like "Legacy USB support", "Detect USB mouse at startup",
etc. You may give it a try.


HTH & WBR
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bsam