Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:21:04 -0500 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Jonathan Fosburgh <syjef@mdanderson.org> Cc: othermark <atkin901@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Sluggish USB mouse in -CURRENT Message-ID: <20050215212104.GB1069@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <200502151310.18456.syjef@mdanderson.org> References: <200502150928.12090.jonathan@fosburgh.org> <cut6rv$4eb$1@sea.gmane.org> <200502151310.18456.syjef@mdanderson.org>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:10:08PM -0600, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:12, othermark wrote: > > > > > If you search the archive, you'll find this problem is mentioned off and on > > in -current postings. I too cannot use my USB mouse in -current. I used > > to be able to, but that's when I could turn apic on and off in the kernel. > > Turning it off broke other things as well, but the brokeness is partially > > a function of my mboard/bios, and partially because of the implementation > > of -current. > > > > Take a look at the output from 'vmstat -i' and look to see what interrupt > > ums0 is sharing. Try to hardcode an unused interrupt to the USB > > controller in BIOS (sometimes just disabling the PS/2 port in BIOS works as > > well). If FreeBSD reads the table correctly (check with a verbose boot, > > my interrupt setting never takes) then you should get your mouse back to > > working in -current. > > Well none of that worked. My BIOS wont let me disable the PS/2 ports. The > ums device doesn't show up in the vmstat -i listing, and disabling acpi > (which also disables HTT for me) doesn't result in any improvement. Maybe > there is more hope of fixing the device probe on PS/2 than fixing USB > performance? At least for right now. Once it's working, you can fool around with moused(8) and its axes and the mouse section settings in the X configuration (i.e. perhaps setting "Buttons" to "5"). It doesn't fix the underlying issues, but generally, it is very possible to get mouse wheels working with PS/2. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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