Re: GigaByte GA-MA69VM USB+mouse problem

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 13:53 -0400, 韓家標 Bill Hacker wrote:

Keep on 'thinking opposite', then.

I'll kick back and have a Bushmills, neat.

Testing of 4 different MB, 3 USB and one PS2 mice with 6 flavors of FreeBSD, and
one of DragonFlyBSD turned up:

Option USB mouse support ON in BIOS, waste two days.

Option USB mouse support OFF in BIOS, mouse responds as it should.

I already said that I have "USB mouse support = OFF" in BIOS. It is
obviously one of the first things one tries to toggle if something like
mouse doesn't work.


Two facts:
1. This is a really generic low budget A4Tech mouse, I buy this single
model for about 5 years, because I love their design (they don't have
any) and their functions (they don't have any). I've had them attached
everywhere, from Pentium II, PIII, P4, Athlon, AM2 boards and this is
the first time the mouse doesn't work. If there was something really
special about this particular model, I'd be aware of that for some years
already..


...but as you've just enumerated - the MB, its 'bridge' and USB chipset has
changed, and the *BIOS* has changed....

But not the mouse (please read again what the point was about). And I'd
really like to test this motherboard with a different mouse model, but I
don't have any other nearby, just these (and a bunch of PS/2 that are of
no use here) and they always worked perfectly. So at least until
tomorrow, let's assume that the mouse is not a problem here, as it is
just a plain simple generic USB mouse, nothing more.


2. Windows 2000 can initialize the mouse without any problems (and with
no specific drivers). FreeBSD can do that too, *after* the mouse is
plugged in when the OS is already running. I wouldn't argue if this is
GigaByte BIOS's fault or not, or if FreeBSD should do something more (or
less) during the initialization, this is not my field of expertise. But

Clearly so.

Windows is an entirely different environment, and not 'of interest'.

DragonFly was close enough to be of interest.

How it is that a different operating system running on this motherboard
that doesn't show any symptoms with the mouse is "not of interest"? If I
said "Linux" or "Atari TOS", would that be ok, but because it works with
"Winbl0w$$$", such information is automatically of no interest? Well,
what a twist.


The ums and usb are kldload/unload 'able modules.
I've been banging on that very approach..

Didn't help.

BIOS setting USB kbd DISABLE, USB mouse DISABLE, all other USB ENABLE did.

To be fair, your 'thinking opposite' has generated a lot less of a
global-warming carbon footprint than all these machines I have running and the
A/C to cool them.

So keep at it...

OTOH, my mouse JF works....

Ok, what should I do to convince you that I DO have
USB/kbd/mouse/support disabled in BIOS? Should I take a picture with a
camera? Dump you raw CMOS data? Buy you a ticket to come look at it?

Really, I disabled it the next reboot that I noticed my mouse isn't
working. I tried all combinations, tried to disable USB 2.0, legacy
support, flashed BIOS to the latest version, it has no effect on the
mouse problem. What I need are some ideas or pointers to what should I
try *next*, and you are not very helpful trying to convince me that I
don't know how to operate BIOS setup. If disabling USB mouse support in
BIOS helped in your case, I'm happy for you, but I have a different
motherboard and this approach clearly doesn't work. So if you, by a
chance, have any other ideas, I'll be more than happy to hear them.

m.


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