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bbtrb

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Registered: 2010-08-12

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Strange external mouse/keyboard behaviour

I experience a weird behavior with the external mouse and keyboard when used with my laptop (Dell Studio 14z):

1. When the laptop runs on battery and I plug in the kb/mouse everything works fine until I connect the AC cable, which causes a hard freeze (not even SSH access possible)
2. When the laptop runs on AC and I connect the kb/mouse everything seems fine only as long as the laptop runs on external power. If I unplug the AC cable, the mouse and kb go dead until I plug it back in.

As far as I can tell, there is nothing in the logs.

Any pointers to how to resolve this a greatly appreciated!

lagagnon

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Re: Strange external mouse/keyboard behaviour

I am not sure whether this is the answer but do you have the acpid daemon running? If not install it and get it running and see if that makes any difference.

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bbtrb

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Registered: 2010-08-12

Posts: 12

Re: Strange external mouse/keyboard behaviour

acpid is running. No difference with or without daemon ...