Comment 70 for bug 379780

@Chase Douglas,

You are right, if the stop udev command is put into /etc/rc.local my usb keyboard and mouse are not recognized at startup. However if I do not have the stop udev command in /etc/rc.local and only run the stop command after booting up and logging in with the usb keyboard and mouse plugged in I get to keep the mouse and keyboard and still reduce the load. Of course, it wont recognize other usb changes subsequently. I understand this is a hack, but if I do not stop udev then I run out of battery power pretty quickly and my laptop heats up very fast.

One point though: this was not an issue with 9.04, because I never experienced this problem there. I did not try 9.10 so I cannot say. So this, to me, indicates that it might not be a hardware problem because the Optiarc DVD drive was working fine in 9.04, unless the drivers have changed with 10.04 and that is causing the excessive load.