Re: trackpoint, touchpad, and buttons suddenly dead
David Griffith <[email protected]>
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Not at the machine yet... Why would a loose or detached cable make the interface itself invisible to the OS? The trackpoint goes through the keyboard, separately from the touchpad. On August 26, 2017 6:14:39 AM PDT, DI Florian Reitmeir <[email protected]> wrote: >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 -- David Griffith [email protected] -- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad