Luke's Ubuntu and Linux Hacks

(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) Keyboard Freeze, Mouse Hesitation and USB Weirdness I know, this is not an Ubuntu issue as much as it is a general computing issue; still I think it is important to document and distribute, no matter what Operating System (OS) you use—mine just happens to be Ubuntu. The Issue In the past three to six months I have been experiencing "freezes" of both my keyboard (primarily) and my mouse (occasionally). After considerable research (including the mostly-worthless forums) and trying the few "solutions" that seemed reasonable, I was unable to avoid the issue just described. As I make my living ...

(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) Apologies for posting about a problem and not offering a solution, but I just wanted to point our—once again—how useless the StackExchange forum is for most "normal" (non-programmer) Ubuntu users. After I upgraded my Ubuntu system to 22.04, this message started popping up upon starting or restarting my computer: mtd device must be supplied (device name is empty)? Because StackExchange seems to be the "official" Ubuntu forum, you  would think that something as prevalent and worrisome as this message might elicit a reply from someone who actually is involved in programming for the Ubuntu des...