USB mouse not detected on boot of 7-STABLE

Marat N.Afanasyev amarat at ksu.ru
Thu Aug 13 21:35:48 UTC 2009


Luke Dean wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> 
>> Ronny Mandal wrote:
>>>> I'm tracking 7-STABLE.
>>>> Recently.. within the last month or so..  my simple USB mouse stopped
>>>> being detected at boot time.
>>>> The /dev/ums0 device simply does not appear unless I unplug the mouse
>>>> and plug it back in again.  Then it is detected.
>>>>
>>>> I don't even know where to begin looking for answers to this one.
>>>
>>> This happens to me also. Strange thing, when I plug the mouse into a
>>> port that is connected directly to the motherboard (not via a hub), it
>>> is detected. When connected to a hub (the integrated hub on my P5K),
>>> it is not. Could it be that FreeBSD fires up the hub after trying to
>>> detect the mouse?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ronny Mandal
>>>
>>
>> see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131074
>>
>> it seems that FreeBSD, at least 7.x, cannot detect appearance of new 
>> hardware plugged into external HUB at runtime, it can detect such a 
>> hardware only during boot process
> 
> I am not using an external hub.
> The mouse is not detected during the boot process.
> It is only detected if I unplug it and replug it after booting.
> It worked fine in 7.x until recently.
> 
I'm sorry, Dean, my reply was to Ronny's message, not yours :)

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SY, Marat
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