Re: trackpoint, touchpad, and buttons suddenly dead
DI Florian Reitmeir <[email protected]>
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Am 26.08.2017 um 13:38 schrieb David Griffith: > > While I was using my T420, the touchpad suddenly stopped responding, > as did the mouse buttons and trackpoint. The output of xinput shows > no PS/2 keyboard/mouse interface available. The output of lsmod shows > that the psmouse module is unused. I checked the BIOS to see if > somehow these got turned off. I turned them off, rebooted, then > rebooted again, and turned them back on again. I removed the hard > drive and inserted a Windows 7 hard drive I keep around for when I > need to use Windows on this laptop. Still nothing. All this while, > the keyboard has continued to function as expected. > > What could have caused the ps/2 mouse interface to fail like this? > > a loose cable? did you remove the keyboard to look at the cables? -- Dipl.-Inf. Florian Reitmeir | Pradlerstr 29a - Top 13 | 6020 Innsbruck +43 670 6051903 | PGP E3F7 DDFB 7CEB 121B 156A D11F F22E DEC8 6317 5E70 -- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad