external mouse/keyboard only works after reboot

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Do the LEDs on the keyboard, or the LED (laser?) in the mouse, come on?  
I'm thinking those are OS-independent, and if they don't, you probably 
have more of a hardware issue than a software one -- e.g., maybe the 
dock only polls devices at boot time.  Which sounds really stupid, but 
never say never when it comes to docking stations...

-Ken


On 2017-05-30 02:47, Kristian Nørgaard wrote:
> I connect my laptop to external mouse/keyboard/monitor through a Dell
> dock TB16.
> 
> When hotplugging the laptop to the dock, the external monitor always
> works fine.
> Mouse/Keyboard requires a laptop reboot to work.
> 
> How can I troubleshoot this?
> I am looking for a better solution than rebooting, a driver to reload
> or service to restart.
> 
> Laptop has Ubuntu 16.04, kernel 4.8.0-49-generic.
> 
> /krix