Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:23:09 +1100 From: Tony Maher <tonymaher@optusnet.com.au> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: 7.1 Release and usb keyboard/mouse problems Message-ID: <4971B18D.3090803@optusnet.com.au>
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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. However after I upgraded to 7.1-RELEASE-p2, I now get this problem every few hours if idle (hard to know exactly when it occurs since i am not at keyboard) and a few minutes if doing a background compilation. The keyboard often shows one of the LEDs constantly flashing at high speed. Unplugging and replugging often does not work and needs to be done several times (and use a different usb port). I saw some email reports and tried in /boot/device.hints hint.atkbd.0.disable="1" hint.atkbdc.0.disable="1" No change. Tried a different mouse and it would continue to work but my normal mouse would disconnect. Tried an identical keyboard and it exhibited the same problem ruling out a bad keyboard. I then tried another keyboard and have not had any problem since. The main thing I can see different is the working keyboard is a Logitech and the two problematic keyboards are (very) cheap noname keyboards. Both the mice are Logitech but the mouse that has problems is very old (from around year 2000 - model M-BA47). The working mouse is newer but still fairly old (Model M-UV96). The box is a amd64 with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GH 4GB RAM and motherboard is Intel DP35DP. So my setup now appears to be fine. If anyone is having similar problems, I suggest trying different (more modern) mice/keyboards. cheers -- Tony Maher email: tonymaher@optusnet.com.au
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