Keyboard and touchpad are not working anymore on some Acer and Asus laptops
we received reports that after upgrading to 4.11 the keyboard and touchpads was not working anymore on one unknown Acer laptop, an Acer Aspire E5-511, and an Asus K70IJ.
external mouse and keyboard are working.
all the reports are from people using tails 4.10 without any issue.
- Bug report: 857e98b8dbecce906d1c3be20ce9c602
- Bug report: 62a76cadc1ef23c863630a7dbe856904
- Bug report: a218d458e74aa07eeb173a8283be6571 (ASUS Zenbook UX330UA)
Status
This regression is well tracked on the web (Archlinux, Ubuntu, etc.) so there's a good chance it is fixed soon by a kernel upgrade.
In the meantime, please use an external USB keyboard and mouse.