USB mouse stops working

[Bill Stanley]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:56 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>>> I think you should check whether you have "Legacy USB support" enabled
>>> in your BIOS. If not, enable it.
>> I think Legacy in that case means dos support. This is useful for USB
>> keyboards and mice when in dos or possibly even editing bios settings, but
>> this is not the fix for his problem.
> 
> 
> In my previous PC (around 2008-2009), if I had "Legacy USB support"
> disabled, the computer would periodically hang under Ubuntu. This,
> together with other stuff I read on the web, made me conclude that
> this feature enabled, was better than disabled for my PC then.
> 
> In any case, it is worth trying.
> 

The laptop is a few years old, I did not check the BIOS.  It's worth a try even 
if it does not solve the problem.