[ILUG] laptop keyboard problems

[Michael Watterson]

> On Monday 25 June 2007 22:17, Michael Thompson wrote:
>   
>> On 25/06/07, Michael Thompson <michaelnt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On 25/06/07, Andrew Court <syklops at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Did you say it works ok with FreeDos?
>>>>         
>>> It's an intermittent problem so not sure
>>>       
>> rebooting the laptop fixes the keyboard so i think it is a software
>> problem. boTh the keyboard and the touchpad stop working at the same
>> time.
>>     
It's not terribly significant that keypad & touch both fail as the i8042 
or equivalent can interface to both and the keypad scanning micro can 
sometimes incorporate mouse or touchpad interface.

If a reboot always fixes it, then it does seem more likely a software 
problem. I had issue on Fiesty Fawn on Dell Laptop where for no apparent 
reason on next logon the mouse cursor was OK till you actually logged 
on. then vanished. I had to edit a file to tell display HWCursor=OFF. 
Obviously this is not the same problem, but suggests it could happen 
with out any HW failure. (My touchpad and external mouse still worked, 
just no display of pointer).

-- 
Mike