Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 13:36:13 -0800 From: "JVD" <jvd@delinocci.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Dell E521 Threads Message-ID: <001601c7037d$ea19e770$be4db650$@com>
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Not to be replying to my own thread and what not, but I came up with a temporary solution to the usb/mouse/wm issues I asked about. Figured there were enough people reporting issues on these Dells that I'd share my finding. Following the advice in another thread I was reading I disabled the front and rear1 usb port baus via the bios. If you plug your usb keyboard into the one bay you left enabled on the port farthest away from the motherboard you can boot into the OS with no panic's. Plugging a mouse into the second available port still causes the panic however. Since I have a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, I took the keyboard port and plugged it into a usb->keyboard/ps2 Y adapter, converted the usb mouse to ps2 and plugged it into the Y adapter as well and plugged that adapter into the one usb port that doesn't seem to crash the box. Now I can boot into the OS with no panics and I end up with a working keyboard and mouse. I didn't test with a normal keyboard and mouse but I'd imagine you could get the same effect. The next problem I ran into after this was xorg. I found that instead of having moused use /dev/sysmouse if it was launched directly to /dev/ums0 my mouse functions in my window manager were gone. In order for this to work you have to add 'moused_nondefault_enable="NO"' to /etc/rc.conf to stop moused from launching on boot and causing xorg to crash on startup because it can't connect to /dev/ums0. Now this _may_ be an unnecessary step, but since doing it I haven't have any issue with my mouse and so I'm sticking with it. I did this on i386 6.2 with xorg, wdm launching e16 But if anyone has any clues on the dvd rom and sound card I'd love some help, thanks -jvd From: JVD [mailto:jvd@delinocci.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:43 AM To: 'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org' Subject: Dell E521 Threads Sorry if some of these questions have already been answered, but I have been digging around and can't find any actual answers. I have tried to run FreeBSD 6.2 for amd64 and 6.2 for i386 on a Dell E521 with no real luck. Currently, I am running 6.2 for i386 and just got done with a cvsup and a build/installworld with no changes. The list of issues appears to be the same that others have already posted about but was looking for some direction on where to look for answers. Since I installed i386 many issues have been resolved, but the following still remain: 1. System panics if any USB device is plugged in during boot - I know there is a bug open on this but I have not seen any progress or potential fixes 2. The DVD-ROM is not recognized 3. The sound card is not recognized 4. After getting the box to boot and plugging in the mouse, my window manager is slow and unresponsive. You can't see the input into aterm/xterm unless the mouse is moving while you type and I have to click the mouse 3-4 times before anything happens when using menus, trying to get focus, etc. I know not all of these belong on the same mailing list, and I have tried to find answers from the existing threads on these topics, but have not seen any threads that have potential solutions. If someone has fixed these issues on their own or could provide me direction as to where to look / what threads to watch for resolution I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance -jvd
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