I'm just starting out using linux and so I installed Ubuntu to a hard disk.
I noticed that after 30 minutes or so, the mouse pointer would simply stop moving while the keyboard was o.k.
Exact same problem with Fedora as well. (The mouse works fine in Vista (it's a MS Comfort mouse 1000))
I searched and found a suggestion that I should disable the sleep settings, so I did that but no luck.
Interestingly, there is no freezing of the mouse when I use the Ubuntu Live CD – it's only the hard-disk-installed Ubuntu that's having the problem.
Update Found some old links from 2009 that say I should remove the "mouseemu" package. How to remove that package?
Update Unfortunately, that did not help – there is no mouseemu pkg installed. I tried setting kernel boot options noapic, irqpoll etc. – no luck. This is so annoying.
Best Answer
If you are using ArchLinux (could be applicable for other distros too), you need to find your device ID by
lsusb
and then add it to the blacklist in USB autosuspend by editing:Example of the line to add:
USB autosuspend ref: Usb Autosuspend
Don't forget to restart the
laptop-mode
service afterwards, for the changes to become effective, e.g. by runningsudo systemctl restart laptop-mode.service
resp.sudo service laptop-mode restart
.