I added the following to the kopt setting in /boot/grub/menu.lst
i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop
and ran update-grub as root (or you can use sudo) in a terminal.
Viola! laptop boots and finds keyboard/mouse trackpad consistently.
Vostro Laptops still use a PS/2 keyboard and mouse internally, even though
they do not have external PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports. Since everything is permanently
connected, I bypassed all the detection carry on in case there are bugs there. Someone may want
to try each option(s) separately by themselves, and find the ones that really matter.
Resolution found.
Fedora/Redhat have run into this problem as well.
https:/ /bugzilla. redhat. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=490250
I added the following to the kopt setting in /boot/grub/menu.lst
i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop
and ran update-grub as root (or you can use sudo) in a terminal.
Viola! laptop boots and finds keyboard/mouse trackpad consistently.
Vostro Laptops still use a PS/2 keyboard and mouse internally, even though
they do not have external PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports. Since everything is permanently
connected, I bypassed all the detection carry on in case there are bugs there. Someone may want
to try each option(s) separately by themselves, and find the ones that really matter.