Thanks. Here are the results of your suggestions, plus some other things I tried:
1. 'tlp' was not installed. 2. I installed 'powertop' and checked its 'Tunables' section. There were 6 entries for "Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller" all set to 'Good' - I changed these to 'Bad'. The problem still occurred. 3. Further diagnostics eventually led to my trying the following: * added "usbcore.autosuspend=-1" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line in /etc/default/grub * ran: sudo update-grub * rebooted * cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend [shows -1 as expected] * cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb[1-6]/power/autosuspend_delay_ms [now shows -1000 - (was previously 0) ] but the problem still occurs. 4. Repeated the above GRUB change with the parameter 'autosuspend_delay_ms' rather than 'autosuspend'. * ls /sys/module/usbcore/parameters [shows an 'autosuspend' parameter but not an 'autosuspend_delay_ms' parameter] * sudo modinfo usbcore [shows: parm: autosuspend:default autosuspend delay (int)] * cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb[1-6]/power/autosuspend_delay_ms [now shows 0] but the problem still occurs. In all cases I still get the same five 'device removed' messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log as originally reported, and the mouse and keyboard are unresponsive after a few minutes idle time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1912670 Title: Mouse buttons and keyboard unresponsive after idle time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1912670/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs