Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:40:47 +0100 From: Martin <nakal@web.de> To: Tony Maher <tonymaher@optusnet.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.1 Release and usb keyboard/mouse problems Message-ID: <20090121134047.3176a950@zelda.local> In-Reply-To: <4971B18D.3090803@optusnet.com.au> References: <4971B18D.3090803@optusnet.com.au>
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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.) -- Martin
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