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LyNac
Asked: 2019-05-27 14:29:11 +0800 CST

Laptop keyboard and trackpad disabled after driver mishap in Ubuntu 16.04

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I managed to mess up the drivers for my laptop keyboard and trackpad last night, and so I can't type anything to restore the original drivers.

Plugging in a USB keyboard or mouse doesn't work either.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and I have 18.04 on a USB stick. I can boot into 18.04 and the keyboard and trackpad work through that, but I don't know how to restore the drivers for 16.04 or edit /etc/default/grub to boot into terminal to fix it. Every solution I'm finding involves typing.

Can I edit the 16.04 /etc/default/grub from 18.04?

Is there a key combo I can hold before Ubuntu 16.04 loads to force it to load into Terminal? The keyboard works until 16.04 loads.

keyboard grub2 drivers touchpad 16.04

1 Answers

  1. How are the keyboard and trackpad connected to the PC? If it's USB, there are problematic handoff settings in your BIOS most likely.

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