Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:15:38 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>, Tony Maher <tonymaher@optusnet.com.au>, stable@freebsd.org, Martin <nakal@web.de> Subject: Re: 7.1 Release and usb keyboard/mouse problems Message-ID: <200901211415.38384.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <49771B2F.7050902@bsd.ee> References: <4971B18D.3090803@optusnet.com.au> <20090121134047.3176a950@zelda.local> <49771B2F.7050902@bsd.ee>
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 13:55:11 Andrei Kolu wrote: > Martin wrote: > > Am Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:23:09 +1100 > > > > schrieb Tony Maher <tonymaher@optusnet.com.au>: > >> 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.) > > Hi, I have similar problem with Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4- I can't boot from > usb flash drive or usb floppy drive 9times of 10. My APC ups was > recognized only after OS is booted up and usb cable reinserted. Looks > like this is Gigabyte problem only- all other motherboards work without > any usb issues. Bios upgrade does not help. Changing any bios setting > does not help either. I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R w/ a Logitech G5 mouse and usb keyboard. I had to switch to usb2 on freebsd 8-current for the keyboard to attach after boot. I have enabled usb keyboard support in the BIOS (otherwise the keyboard cannot be used during the boot process). Everything is working fine now. -- Pieter de Goeje
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