Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:03:25 +0100 From: Johannes Dieterich <dieterich.joh@googlemail.com> To: Martin <nakal@web.de> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.1 Release and usb keyboard/mouse problems Message-ID: <542798610901210503p5a98be5byb688b9d0bb8ae142@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090121134047.3176a950@zelda.local> References: <4971B18D.3090803@optusnet.com.au> <20090121134047.3176a950@zelda.local>
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Hello Martin and Tony, On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Martin <nakal@web.de> 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). I am adding a "me too" here. Interesting is, that I see same behaviour on two Gigabyte boards, a GA-MA790X-DS4 and another one (model number I do not have right here ATM, need to check, Intel-based board though). No problems on my Thinkpad X60s though. > > > > 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. Also here a me too. Reattaching always works, on the intel-based board I've been running an openSUSE 10.3 w/o problems. > > > During device detection and initialization of uhci/ehci my USB-mouse > is switched off and does not get power anymore. The usb port of the GA-MA790X-DS4 actually get powered off if USB mouse is plugged-in during boot. This also causes a time-out which sucks a little. Johannes > > > 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.) > >
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