laptop keyboard and touch pad arent working

[Basil Chupin]

On 26/07/10 21:37, Shaun Jones wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Madhurya Kakati <papul at sliced.co.cc 
> <mailto:papul at sliced.co.cc>> wrote:
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>     hi. my laptop keyboard and touchpad werent working. i found the
>     solution. it was to add i8042.reset in the kernel line of grub.cfg
>     but the problem is that the grub.cfg file get over written on
>     kernel updates. is there any long term solution?
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>  Actually I have pci=nomsi in my /etc/default/grub and it does not get 
> overwritten when grub gets updated. I am using 10.04 and grub 2 though.

10.04 now uses grub2 by default.

grub 1 was used by Ubuntu prior to 10.04 - which means that you need to 
keep this in mind when playing around with grub when changing over from 
Karmic.

BC


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