Vincent, the HP Pavilion laptops don't offer an option to disable legacy USB in the BIOS. I'm sure there are others (models, brands etc) that are the same. This would be a problem.
My issue has since gone away with the Sunday AM updates to KDE4. Even the tray icons no longer fade away after a few minutes. My question or thoughts are surrounding the nVidia chips or KDE4 now. Nick posted above that his was faulty only under X and since most of us with this issue are running nVidia chipsets..... My install was a fresh Kubuntu 8.10 install. Then I ran the updates (no kernel update) with no issues. After a reboot, updated the kernel. USB issue started. Reboot - no mouse, install nVidia driver - reboot, mouse worked but stopped working after a few minutes. Reboot, no change. I left the system alone except to boot into the 2.6.27-4 kernel which provided full functionality. On Sunday I read Dimitrios's request and responded accordingly. Few hours later I installed the updates that were available Sunday morning. I've had no issues since these updates were applied. They were mostly KDE4 updates. I see where Gnome users (assuming here) are also affected which I know makes my pointing to KDE4 void. For some reason, the HP Pavilion laptop model has suffered the most under Linux regardless of distro and version compared to other makes/models. Unsure why but that's not for here. -- 2.6.27-7 kernel breaks USB https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281737 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
