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| Timothy Williams (tiwillia) wrote Re: [Dell BIOSes dated 27 Mar 2019] laptop keyboard & touchpad not working at gdm screen after boot | #32 |
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I believe I have a workaround provided by a kernel engineer I was discussing the issue with.
Adding the following to the kernel boot options resulted in the keyboard and touchpad working without issue:
i8042.nomux=1 i8042.reset
It appears that Dell uses i8042 to emulate a ps/2 interface rather than using USB for the built-in keyboard and touchpad.
The following stackexchange link provided more info: https:/
I've attached a new dmesg output from a successful boot using these boot options[0]
[0] boot_i8042_