Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:06:52 -0800 From: Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI kills USB mouse Message-ID: <41AFF46C.8010902@taborandtashell.net> In-Reply-To: <41AFF3FA.1080909@taborandtashell.net> References: <41AFEADE.8020201@vesterman.com> <41AFF3FA.1080909@taborandtashell.net>
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Robert William Vesterman wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having a hard time getting my USB mouse to work. Tonight, I > accidentally booted without ACPI support, and the USB mouse magically > worked. I tried booting with and without ACPI support several times > thereafter, and each time, the USB mouse worked if and only if I > hadn't booted with ACPI support. > > Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround? Is there any sort of > information I can gather that might help to narrow down the problem? > > This is with 5.3-RELEASE, by the way. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Bob Vesterman. It is known (at least by myself) that the FreeBSD ACPI support can break all sorts of things if it doesn't happen to agree with your hardware. I think the known workaround is booting with support disabled. -Tabor Kelly
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