From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 12:40:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66EA11065673 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:40:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de (fmmailgate02.web.de [217.72.192.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258028FC16 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:40:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B543CF934686; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:40:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.236.0.162] (helo=zelda.local) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.110 #277) id 1LPcO2-0000Td-00; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:40:50 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:40:47 +0100 From: Martin To: Tony Maher Message-ID: <20090121134047.3176a950@zelda.local> In-Reply-To: <4971B18D.3090803@optusnet.com.au> References: <4971B18D.3090803@optusnet.com.au> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: nakal@web.de X-Sender: nakal@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18nc3CcUMN6dcW3pWI09J/8NuoTvt2xpfGjoKx3 2RUajA0k7JJaIf4tETv9MKOsSLidnC4BP8pO8iAtQXkmm9HX31 i/5BEgLTI= Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.1 Release and usb keyboard/mouse problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:40:55 -0000 Am Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:23:09 +1100 schrieb Tony Maher : > Hello, > > I have been running FreeBSD 7 from around 2008-10-20 and experienced > the occasional problems with usb mouse and keyboard. The mouse > pointer slowly drift to a corner of the screen and not respond, and > the keyboard would become unresponsive. Unplugging and plugging back > in fixed the problem. This would happen a few times per week. Hi, I've reported problems like this on -STABLE more than once already. Apparently it is a very uncommon problem for the developers. I have to say that all my new PCs and the new laptop has problems with USB keyboards and mice generally. The laptop (IBM Thinkpad T60p) has the most problems, -STABLE switches the USB devices off in intervals of about 2h. I have updated (flashed) my BIOS firmware on this mainboard here (Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R rev 2.1) to the recent firmware F4a (it's a 6 month old beta release). The problem worsened now. I cannot get my USB mouse working until I reattach it physically. This is not a problem on other OSes, it seems. During device detection and initialization of uhci/ehci my USB-mouse is switched off and does not get power anymore. I get the same effect on -CURRENT as of yesterday. Mouse is Logitech G5, btw. I tried various USB settings in BIOS. USB mouse support on/off, USB legacy device support on/off. What else can I do? This is very annoying. (I wonder if it can be the source of many problems that people report here about umass devices.) -- Martin