On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:35:37 +0200, Michal Varga wrote > 2009/4/13 <piotr.smy...@heron.pl>: > >> ). 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. > > Are you sure you plugged the mouse out, then powered the > computer on, and plugged the mouse back in only after > FreeBSD fully finished booting? To make it perfectly > redundantly safe, let's say, plugged mouse in at the login > prompt? Because I'm 100% positive (well, me and everyone > else with any recent Gigabyte board that I know) that > plugging the device in after the USB drivers are fully initialized > will prevent the lockup and port timeout, always.
Yes, I'm 100% positive I tried plugging mouse after the boot up had finished. Honestly I am late asking here. I was struggling with this and looking for cases online for more than 2 weeks at least. And I came across your thread from 2007, too. > >> 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. > > > Well, I guess that would need someone with both FreeBSD > USB expertise and some interest in fixing that bug (and > probably an access to particular Gigabyte hardware, though > as it seems so far, anything recent from Gigabyte and > probably AMD6xx/7xx based will do it). Anyway, I tried > reporting it back then in 2007, all I got was a bunch of > arguments about power source fluctuations, carbon > footprints, Windows, PS/2 mices (for christ sake..), and > well, being a lazy coward, I gave up. Maybe you'll be > luckier this time. Well, I don't like the idea of giving up. I have been using the OS since the 90's, almost exclusively and that's the first time I got such unresolvable problems. But I need a functional work environment. -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smy...@heron.pl _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
