<html><head></head><body>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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 26, 2017 6:14:39 AM PDT, DI Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Am 26.08.2017 um 13:38 schrieb David Griffith:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> While I was using my T420, the touchpad suddenly stopped responding,<br /> as did the mouse buttons and trackpoint. The output of xinput shows<br /> no PS/2 keyboard/mouse interface available. The output of lsmod shows<br /> that the psmouse module is unused. I checked the BIOS to see if<br /> somehow these got turned off. I turned them off, rebooted, then<br /> rebooted again, and turned them back on again. I removed the hard<br /> drive and inserted a Windows 7 hard drive I keep around for when I<br /> need to use Windows on this laptop. Still nothing. All this while,<br /> the keyboard has continued to function as expected.<br /><br /> What could have caused the ps/2 mouse interface to fail like this?</blockquote><br /><br />a loose cable? did you remove the keyboard to look at the cables?<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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