The bug has been resolved by using a different mousepad. It is hard to believe, yes, but a Dell sitting right next to the Ubuntu machine did not have a mousepad at all and used the same identical optical mouse.
It is almost embarrassing. I am fascinated that it took almost a year to get a response on this question of mine. -- usb mouse pointer freezes, but system continues to run https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
