From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 19:03:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40144106568D for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:03:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D218A8FC19 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:03:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.19]) by QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id PVq31a0020QuhwU56X3CAy; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:12 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id PX3A1a00V2P6wsM3NX3BYj; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:11 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=v32p6i4tBUBXRL4x-IwA:9 a=p3cMj1ss9vDyj8KMx_IA:7 a=ngN-FRriIwSAeObzmS7Bnj_K2f0A:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6B046C9419; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:03:10 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Aniruddha Message-ID: <20081006190310.GA28336@icarus.home.lan> References: <1223275319.4116.7.camel@debian> <20081006130929.386aebb7@baby-jane-lamaiziere-net.local> <48E9F93A.5020806@webzone.net.au> <1223311942.24138.6.camel@debian> <20081006170501.GA26115@icarus.home.lan> <1223313780.24138.8.camel@debian> <20081006180058.GC26368@icarus.home.lan> <1223319210.4138.8.camel@debian> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1223319210.4138.8.camel@debian> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB mouse problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:14 -0000 On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:53:30PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:00 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:23:00PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > I don't think this has something to with a bios setting/jumper. My > > > > > other USB ports are working fine ( I also have an USB keyboard plugged > > > > > in). > > > > > > > > > > Furthermore in Linux nor Vista I've encountered this problem. Therefor I > > > > > suspect it must have something to do with FreeBSD. Maybe it's an bug? If > > > > > someone has an solution that would be great! > > > > > > > > FreeBSD's existing USB stack is known to be... shall we say, flaky. > > > > It's well-established at this point. The possibility of it being > > > > related to FreeBSD's USB stack is very likely. > > > No -- significantly different. CURRENT is "super alpha it's probably > > going to break", while 7.1-BETA is simply the upcoming release of 7.1 > > which is slated to become -STABLE after a few months. > > Ah I see. Unfortunately I think I have found the problem. My Razer > Lachesis doesn't work with FreeBSD. It doesn't matter which USB port I > use. I found this patch though: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=usb/118670 > > What does "3-20-2008: Fix merged to RELENG_7" mean? Is this fix > available in the FreeBSD 7 (stable) release I'm running? Thanks in > advance! It means the original fix was applied to CURRENT (what is also known as HEAD), and then "backported" to RELENG_7 (what you would call FreeBSD 7.x-STABLE) on 2008/03/20. "MFC" stands for "Merge From CURRENT". You can confirm this by looking at cvsweb for the file in question: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/usb/ums.c The change for HEAD/CURRENT was made in Revision 1.98 (date = Mar 12) The MFC to RELENG_7 was made in Revision 1.96.2.1 (date = Mar 20) If you csup your src tree (use /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile) the patched code will be downloaded and used. You'll have to rebuild world to get the changes, of course. See the FreeBSD Handbook for doing a csup as well as for rebuilding world. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |