i’m having this very annoying and crippling issue using Linux.
The keyboard and touchpad stop working randomly. It happens less frequently to the keyboard, so i’m able to run the following command to regain the touchpad control:
rmmod -f i2c_hid_acpi && modprobe i2c_hid_acpi
This completely takes the joy of using the machine… i tried changing xf86-input-libinput by xf86-input-evdev, the touchpad didn’t work (only the physical click) and eventually the keyboard also stopped working , similarly to when i was using libinput.
The dmesg shows no information about this failure. I can’t even debug what’s happening. It looks like if the hardware disconnects.
Sometimes the “ctrl” key gets stuck… i’ve seen other people using Windows having this happening.
I wonder if more recent versions of BIOS address this…