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jonathan183
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 Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:58 pm Post subject: Laptop built-in keyboard and mousepad work intermittently |
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I have a Toshiba Satellite C55D-A-12N which came with Windows 8.1 pre-installed (I don't use Windows so not sure if the problem would happen there also).
I have installed Linux Mint Debian Edition, Arch Linux, and Gentoo.
The problem I am having is that intermittently the built-in keyboard and mouse pad stop working. The problem has occurred in Gentoo and Arch so is not unique to the kernel config (or init system), I think it happens in Mint as well but I infrequently boot into Mint so can't remember if it has happened in that as well.
I have a password set for startup, the built-in keyboard always works for this. The system boots to a command prompt but sometimes the built in keyboard and mouse do not work, so I can't login. If I plug in a USB keyboard and mouse they work and I can use the laptop. I can shutdown and restart the laptop and sometimes the built-in keyboard and mouse work and sometimes they do not.
The built-in keyboard and mouse work fine for a random number of startups between 1 and 10 (tried cold boot and shutdown with the keyboard working 5 times in a row), and then don't work for a random number of startup between 1 and 5 (tried cold boot and shutdown with the keyboard not working 3 times in a row).
I have tried making atkbd a module and loading it which does not seem to make any difference. However if I plug in a usb keyboard and do
| Code: | modprobe -v -r atkbd
modprobe -v atkbd |
the built in keyboard and mouse start working again.
I have dmesg output for atkbd unload, load and plug-in of the usb keyboard with the built-in keyboard working as https://bpaste.net/show/64afeb567598 and when the built-in keyboard does not work at https://bpaste.net/show/114a82f3bc70
If anyone knows how to cure this issue, I'd appreciate a link to a solution ... if I figure it out I'll add it to this thread. |
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C5ace
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