Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote
>> Well, this is interesting.  I swapped out the mobo.  First, it has the
>> UEFI BIOS thing.  That was interesting for sure.  I'm not complaining
>> but not used to it and wasn't expecting it either.  Second, it works
>> except for the third part.  Third thing is, no mouse worky.  It works in
>> the BIOS but not in the OS.  I have gpm set to start and it doesn't work
>> in a console or a GUI.  I tried everything I can think of, no mouse.  I
>> had to swap again.  I'm back to my old mobo.  Here is the kicker.  I
>> plugged the USB mouse into the old mobo, it works just fine.  It works
>> in KDE, console etc.  It just works.  The only kernel change I made was
>> for the chipset on the mobo.  I left the USB stuff alone.
>   I've run into this in the past.  The USB 2.0 drivers are *SUPPOSED* to
> provide support for lowspeed USB 1.X devices, like mice and keyboards.
> But it doesn't always work that way.  There is direct USB 1.X driver
> support in the kernel.  In "make menuconfig", got to...
>
> Device Drivers  --->
> [*] USB support  --->
> < >     OHCI HCD support
> < >     UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support
>
>   I don't see any mention in your message whether the motherboard cpu is
> AMD or Intel.  Generally, build UHCI for Intel+VIA, OHCI for AMD.  Try
> it out and see what happens.
>


Mine is AMD based.  I have this right now but tried every other version
I could find too.

<*>   xHCI HCD (USB 3.0) support
<*>   EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support
<*>   OHCI HCD support
[*]     Generic OHCI driver for a platform device
<*>   Generic EHCI driver for a platform device
<*>   UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support

Under USB HID support, I have this enabled:

<*> USB HID transport layer
[*] PID device support
[*] /dev/hiddev raw HID device support


This may help:

root@fireball /usr/src/linux # cat .config | grep -i hid | grep =y
CONFIG_HID=y
CONFIG_HIDRAW=y
CONFIG_UHID=y
CONFIG_HID_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_HID_A4TECH=y
CONFIG_HID_APPLE=y
CONFIG_HID_BELKIN=y
CONFIG_HID_CHERRY=y
CONFIG_HID_CHICONY=y
CONFIG_HID_CYPRESS=y
CONFIG_HID_EZKEY=y
CONFIG_HID_KYE=y
CONFIG_HID_GYRATION=y
CONFIG_HID_KENSINGTON=y
CONFIG_HID_LOGITECH=y
CONFIG_HID_MICROSOFT=y
CONFIG_HID_MONTEREY=y
CONFIG_HID_NTRIG=y
CONFIG_HID_PANTHERLORD=y
CONFIG_HID_PETALYNX=y
CONFIG_HID_SAMSUNG=y
CONFIG_HID_SONY=y
CONFIG_HID_SUNPLUS=y
CONFIG_HID_TOPSEED=y
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_HID_PID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
root@fireball /usr/src/linux #

Right before I swapped back, I tried them all.  ;-)  Here is some more info:

root@fireball /usr/src/linux # cat .config | grep -i hci
CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
# CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM is not set
# CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI is not set
# CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI is not set
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_XHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
# CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD_DEBUGGING is not set
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_PCI=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD_PLATFORM=y
# CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC is not set
# CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO is not set
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT=y
root@fireball /usr/src/linux #


My thinking, there is some driver that is different from my old mobo to
this new mobo and I'm missing it or just missing something really
simple.  I went by the Debian HCL site but maybe something got changed. 
If I could boot the Sysrescue stick then I could likely figure it out
from that.  I'm going to update that stick before the next test. 

Keep in mind, for me to test anything, I have to swap mobos again. 
Naturally I don't want to do that any more times than I have to.  Each
times runs the risk of me messing up something.  :/

Thanks much to all.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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