Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: >> >>> I am trying to install FreeBSD. >>> During the install (actually at the beginning of the process) the system >>> hangs indefinitely. >>> When it gets to the select country screen...it is frozen. >>> During the boot process, as it is reading all the hardware, it finds the USB >>> controller OK then later it states there was an IO error and that the USB >>> controller is halted. I have a USB Keyboard and mouse...so I would say the >>> problem is here. >>> Is there any workaround I can use to get things going? >> >> Set "USB Legacy Support" to disabled in the BIOS. If that isn't >> available, it might work to boot with the keyboard detached. Connect it >> after the BIOS boot, at the FreeBSD bootloader prompt or maybe at the >> country select screen. > > I don't see how this would solve or even affect his problem. > > As I understand it, "USB Legacy Support" is intended for operating > systems which do not have a USB stack available to them, thus making USB > keyboards/mice appear as PS/2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I > believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation > layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is > lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB > controller is initialised. > > The OP is making it past boot2/loader, the kernel and all its drivers > are fully loaded (including the USB stack).
Well, that may be totally correct but practice... Ex., I have an ASUS P5K motherboard and I can't use a USB mouse with "USB Legacy Support". The mouse is detected and works IFF this support is OFF. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
