On 28/05/12 11:32, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Every so often (not too often happily) both keyboard and mouse will stop functioning. It seems to happen most often when I plug a camera or MP3 player in. The only way to get them going again is to switch everything off. (If I touch the off button it will shut down in 60 seconds from the shut down dialogue box.)
What I'm wondering is, has anyone here come across this problem and is there another, more permanent, solution to it? I would add that I've never had to install any drivers for any such devices, so I'm pretty confident that's not the issue. [Unbuntu 11.04.]
Hi Bev,
I've got this too on both a laptop and on my main desktop PC. They run different versions of ubuntu (12.04 & 10.04) and the laptop still did it when I had mint(11) loaded. The keyboard and mouse(pad) will just stop responding[1]. The only common factor is it happenes at the most inconvenient time.
Other executing programs continue, as far as they can, without issue.
It doesn't happen often enough for me to get annoyed enough to try and track it down.