Note: The success (or otherwise) of the following solution will depend on your hardware and possibly which version of *buntu you are using. Feel free to add your feedback to this thread and alternative solutions
Open a terminal type
gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
You will be asked for your password - don’t worry if your password doesn’t show, this is normal. Just type in your password as usual, and it will be accepted.
When the editor opens, scroll down to the line which reads
# defoptions=quiet splash
and change it to read
# defoptions=quiet splash acpi=force irqpoll
Save the file, exit the editor
Now you need to update the grub using the following command
sudo update-grub
Finally Restart your computer.
For Grub2 Users (Ubuntu Karmic) follow this procedure
gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Find the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=””
and place the boot uptions there, like
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”acpi=force irqpoll”
Save and exit the file
After that, update the bootloader with:
sudo update-grub
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9.10 Netbook Remix there is no /boot/grub/menu.lst file???!!
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This tutorial doesn’t work for grub2. Is this bug reported to Launchpad?
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dunbrokin: If your Ubuntu UNR (Ubuntu netboot remix)9.10 is a new install, then you have grub2 which means that you can’use this tutorial.
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can you proide a tutorial for grub2?
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For Grub2 (Ubuntu Karmic):
gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Find the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”" and place the boot uptions there, like
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”acpi=force irqpoll”
After that, update the bootloader with:
sudo update-grub
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Wesam Reply:
April 17th, 2012 at 3:27 am
OH MY GOD, THANK YOU.
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Trying it on 9.10 with an asus m3n78-vm… I’m hopeless my mouse hangs after 20min… hope this helps…
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unfortunately in 9.10 there is not a grub file in default.At least in my system. Nor for that matter the line is in any file of the /boot folder.
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doesn’t work in ubuntu 10.04 rc
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Tried the suggested fix for GRUB2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lynx) and, for a moment, believed it had done it. I was able to use the system for longer than I had been until that point. However, my USB mouse’s cursor suddenly froze all over again.
So far, my experience with Lynx has been an unreliable and frustrating one. And I’ve had mostly joy with Ubuntu, since 2005. I hope this gets sorted out soon. One can see on the forums that this is not an isolated issue.
Regards.
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This does not work in 9.10 or 10.04… and is solely a linux problem. Doesn’t happen on same box that is dual-booted with Windows 7.
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Is it me or do MSI motherboards and Linux not play nice together in terms of USB. I’ve found using other makes of board seems to help.
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Hi. Could you do a updated version for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx?
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Try running this:
sudo aptitude purge irqbalance
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Tried grub nothing in menu1. Tried grub2 usb still not working. My external HD and dvd cdrom unavialable. Did sudo aptitude purge irqbalance thing. No go An irq is an interrupt in machine language from my programming days.
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Hi, what worked for me with karmic 64 was to go into synaptic and type in mouse. Then if not already enable/install choose mousetweaks and mouseemu.
My usbmouse work now
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“gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Find the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”” and place the boot uptions there, like
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”acpi=force irqpoll”
After that, update the bootloader with:
sudo update-grub”
Thanks! That worked for me.
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Thank you very very much! After I had spent hours and hours googling around to find out a way to make usb devices work again, I came upon this tutorial. Whatever had I tried, it never worked. Twice fresh install Lucid and Maverick, nothing. I had installed ubuntu on many other machines, no problem at all. And now, on my son’s and my daughter’s laptops - bump! The solution provided in the above tutorial worked like a charm! Great! Thanks!
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The solution didn’t work for me (ubuntu 10.10/11.04 beta), but combining this tutorial with another one i found on the web y replaced the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”acpi=force irqpoll” line with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”pci=nocrs” and worked like a charm after rebooting.
I? not a linux expert so i really don’t know what this does.. perhaps someone can explain it to me.
thank you very much for the post!
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On my amd64 system, after the update to 11.04 my problems (mouse and keyboard failing after boot) returned. Had previously done the acpi=force to make it work (10.04/10.10).
Just did it again, got me about 60s of running x-windows before the mouse died. Just trying “me’s” suggestion of pci=nocrs. Both settings cause X-windows to take ages to start the window manager. After taking an age to come up- the kb and mouse died before login… Second boot was better so failure is still random (within the first minute). Tried installing mouseemu too to no avail… looking further afield now.
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I have never had this issue with any computer I have ever built, but with my new i7 based system, this is definately a problem. Like ayenack mentioned above, I now have a MSI motherboard so maybe the statement is correct. Don’ buy MSI if you plan on running Ubuntu.
I will try to apply some of the “fixes” stated above and report back.
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I have 3 puters with XP and Ubuntu 11.x installed.
2 Acer laptop’s no problem.
Desktop with a MSI g41m4(ms7592)1.0 board, a 2.7 gig Pentium duel. usb keyboard and use Targus card reader. All puters use many different usb connected devices and no problem. Boinc/seti do have a problem. When I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 on another machine, usb was dead in the water. Never did get it fixed. 11.x however worksjust fine.
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I have the same problem on my laptop (AMILO L7310GW). With Ubuntu 11.04 (i386), following this guide, i solve the problem (adding “acpi=force irqpoll”).
But now, with Ubuntu 11.10 (i386) it doesn’t work anymore. Any ideas?
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Zeno Laiti Reply:
November 16th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
I forgot one thing, with “acpi=off” or “pci=noacpi” usb port work well, but wireless doesn’t work.
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i have the same problem
mouse suddenly freezes
and in /var/log/messages
USB disconnect, address XX
me help reinstall compiz
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sudo apt-get purge compiz*
cd $HOME && rm -rf .compiz/ .config/compiz/
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