Comment 5 for bug 358889

I can confirm this behavior as well. No problems at all with 8.10 fully patched, but the upgrade caused the behavior described. I noticed that my xorg was modified by the upgrade to comment out the mouse and keyboard sections in favor of HAL.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

$ apt-cache policy nvidia-180-modaliases
nvidia-180-modaliases:
  Installed: 180.44-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 180.44-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 180.44-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ dpkg --list | grep nvidia-180
ii nvidia-180-kernel-source 180.44-0ubuntu1 NVIDIA binary kernel module source
ii nvidia-180-libvdpau 180.44-0ubuntu1 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
ii nvidia-180-modaliases 180.44-0ubuntu1 Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org drive