Re: trackpoint, touchpad, and buttons suddenly dead
Christoph Schmees <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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? > Southbridge failed due to overheating? Is USB still functioning? How is air flow: little and very hot? Just my shot into the blue ... -- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad