no USB mice detected on GA-MA74GM-S2

[piotr.smyrak at heron.pl]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:58:19 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote
> 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.

As I said in the beginning of the thread, it was of no use in my case.

-- 
 Piotr Smyrak
 piotr.smyrak at heron.pl