My Mouse Don't Work ???

[sharris]

 ... and they never did.  Could someone please tell me how do I make my mouse work on my Gigabytes.  I have these two Monsters and neither of will run a simple mouse on the simplest system... UNIX.

Board-1  "Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H"

Board-2  "Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H"

If I use both PS2 keyboard and mouse in the standard single port the mouse will not work.  If I plug the mouse in the usb port, the mouse will not work.  If I switch them around the mouse STILL will not work.

This is what ALWAYS happen; the mouse pointer ARROW will show up on the screen, but the second I type a key on the keyboard to log-in, the ARROW DISAPPEAR, like Houdini,  forever .. and a day.

This has been going on from day1, back in October 2010 when I purchased these two Gigabyte Mother Boards.  Fedora not installing was my first issue.  I tried everything I could think and this make no since at all coming straight out the box for a simple mouse support.   And I am only running the lattest and the Greatest FreeBSD 9.0 with mouse support enabled properly, which works on all my other systems, old and new.

Please SAVE ME!

Thanks in advance

PS: I have 12 mices and they work every where else.

[absic]

Hi,

this would seem to be a software rather than hardware issue. I'm not familiar with Free BSD but have you tried another OS distro just to eliminate that as a possibility?

[Dark Mantis]

I am no expert when it comes to Unix but I have a feeling that it runs on the similar principles to DOS and so I expect the you will need to have Legacy USB Devices and Legacy USB Storage enabled in the BIOS.

[absic]

I am no expert when it comes to Unix but I have a feeling that it runs on the similar principles to DOS and so I expect the you will need to have Legacy USB Devices and Legacy USB Storage enabled in the BIOS.

These are usually enabled by default unless you have made changes to BIOS. 

[Dark Mantis]

Fair enough mate. 

[sharris]

It can't be an software issue because it works on my AMD TA790GX A3+ and all of my P4 machines and maybe every other MB on earth.  It only don't work on Gigabyte.  Btw;  BSD is not really consider a distro.  Fedora, ARCH, etc is a distro.  FreeBSD it is a true UNIX system that goes WAY WAY back in the history of computing.  Anyway, it just like when I tried to install Fedora.. I had to give up.  Nothing worked to-date.

Problem is Gigabyte did not do any testing for anything  other than for Windows and maybe some LINUX. But ABOVE ALL, you don't screw with the standard keyboard and mouse ports in the first place unless you are sure that everything standard will work BIOS wise.  There is no excuse for this.  Now many of us here have to FLASH the BIOS with many versions until we find the one that will work ... and we only have one life time.

Big, and as important, as this company is, they should already had installed FreeBSD for testing hours ago and posted a fix here or somewhere by now.  But nine out of ten it takes rocket science to make it work like what Christoph did or almost did for Fedora:

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,4011.0.html

He tried hard to help me.  I'm sure he got it to work by now but it had to been an over-kill with no help from the creator themselves who to this date have not posted a solution somewhere.  They know the facts by now.  Maybe they should hire some of its members instead of sailing the seven seas looking for cheaper labor.

Don't get me wrong, I still plan to work it out using these mother-boards but it's taking to long to meet the true power these boards have to offer.  I might have to try every FLASH in the book.  But I'm really going to be upset this round if nothing work.

Thanks everybody for your ideas, I'm about to do some serious ripping and tearing.  But it's strange to read the same types issues about the mouse and keyboard right at this forum and not one of them came up with a solution yet.

PS:  Dark Mantis, I believe that youare on to something about "Legacy USB Devices and Legacy USB Storage enabled in the BIOS".  The minute I read your post, my first thought was, maybe the USB-3 setting is interfering with the USB-2 process.  Whatever the case I bet all that it's something un-standard written in the BIOS code that is causing all of our  problems in many areas and it got to be known by the creators by now, for sure.   Sorry folks, but I think like a human being too.  Let's just hope it's not in the wiring.  Code can be fixed.

[malum]

You have sparked my curiosity and I now want to install BSD on my computer just to see this.

[geekyadz]

Is the mouse wireless by any chance? I get the same issues under Ubuntu when using wireless mice which are part of a desktop set.

I have never found a fix and arent interested in one: the one times I tend to use Ubuntu are when Windows has failed me and I need to pull some files from the hard drive

[sharris]

You have sparked my curiosity and I now want to install BSD on my computer just to see this.

I'm still crying ... I should have mention this; I had PcBSD installed at one time on these machines and they worked just fine. But now they only run FBSD because one is going to be a kick booty gateway running pf and such, and the other is going to be a dedicated web-server for all my projects and such.

Anyway, my 3rd machine is also a AMD, but it has a another modern brand of motherboard that dual-boot to my PcBSD (desktop environment) or my  raw-FreeBSD (server) which is going to be my back-office to my home network.  So I really still can get the job done because it will control (keep in tack) my Gigabyte (servers).  It's still a dream come true.  The Gigabytes are true powers houses, regardless of this issue. it's just that I can't cut and paste anything directly, but I can still do that over the network as intended, which is cool but still far from fair.

Use an extra machine, old or new and make 4 partitons with Partition Magic... Install Windows on partitions one, than install FreeBSD Server on Partition-2, than install PcBSD on Partition three, than finally install ARCH-LINUX on partition four.  Do not allow the BSD to be set to boot, install them with no Boot-Manger or MBR or your screw and have to try again.  You let  ARCH-LINUX (GRUB) do that job ... Now you can boot to any of the four systems and learn a lot.  PcBSD will end-up being your favorite.  And you can than experience the problem I'm having latter with Partition-2, your FreeBSD server, than crack the case  It take a good month to get the feel of it all so don't give in.  And google like crazy.  In a year  . .  you are KING, again!


http://forums.pcbsd.org

http://forums.freebsd.org

http://www.freebsd.org

https://bbs.archlinux.org

http://board.flatassembler.net

http://www.google.com


... and remeber, Gigabyte was not build in a day! ... I mean ROME'

Is the mouse wireless by any chance?

No.  Hust a plain old PS2 mouse

I get the same issues under Ubuntu when using wireless mice which are part of a desktop set.

This is a Ubuntu configuration problem, not Gigabyte.  Ubuntu works for me also but they took control of NAUTILUS now we have NADA!  But it's a good system but with LINUX you are suppose to be the BOSS.  Fedora give you full control of NAUTILUS and more, but KDE is only a Explorer like Windows so it's outie tooo.  Might as well use Windows-7.

I have never found a fix and arent interested in one: the one times I tend to use Ubuntu are when Windows has failed me and I need to pull some files from the hard drive

It's all a matter of style.  It does have that in older versions, but now it's a rip job.

Just my 2 bit