Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:58:21 +0200 From: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl To: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no USB mice detected on GA-MA74GM-S2 Message-ID: <20090412224548.M53466@heron.pl> In-Reply-To: <3f1fd1ea0904121512m21cfb40crb2e16fa1841f3cb5@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090408190805.GA1368@smyrak.com> <20090408224925.3dd1f8ab@zelda.local> <20090409104532.M16424@heron.pl> <20090412151547.M42910@heron.pl> <3f1fd1ea0904121512m21cfb40crb2e16fa1841f3cb5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:12:09 +0200, Michal Varga wrote > 2009/4/12 <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl>: > > On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:57:30 +0200, piotr.smyrak wrote > >> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:49:25 +0200, Martin wrote > >> > Am Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:08:05 +0200 > >> > schrieb Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl>: > >> > > >> > I'm overall satisfied with -CURRENT. I've always wanted to > >> > say that FreeBSD developers do a really great job on the > >> > -CURRENT branch. It's running very stable and has plenty > >> > of new features. I know I shouldn't recommend to migrate > >> > to -CURRENT, but I'm almost sure, it runs much better than > >> > every -CURRENT I've seen before and sometimes I have the > >> > impression that it's even nicer than the -STABLE branch. > >> > >> Well, I am not scared by -CURRENT at all, but I was > >> hesitating to upgrade main build since it is after all a > >> moving target and I would like to keep my main work horse > >> as much steady as possible. > >> > > Sadly this is all I can get out of 8.0-CURRENT as of yesterday. Both with BIOS option for "USB mouse support" on and > > off. > > Don't bother with BIOS settings for "USB/keyboard mouse > support", they won't help. This is a long standing (bios?) > bug for *MANY* Gigabyte motherboards (like this one from 2007: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007- October/078191.html > ). A quick workaround is to attach your mouse (or any > other USB device that dies during boot - mices, keyboards, > card readers, etc. do this with FreeBSD 6/7's usb1 and > Gigabyte boards) -after- all USB drivers are loaded and > initialized. That always works. Unfortunately not in my case. I have tried this path before without success. > Also in one case I know of, > having an external powered USB hub 'solved' the issue (if > that counts as a fix). > Still, having it properly fixed in usb1 drivers wouldn't > hurt, of course, How do you go about that? I mean fixing a device in usb1.1. -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl
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