Comment 25 for bug 1066376

Hi,

Sorry, but : I still have the same problem.

My laptop is a Dell Latitude E5510 with a docking station, running Xubuntu Quantal 64 bits, and it has external USB mouse and keyboard.
I'm using this same harware for a long time, and I upgraded every release since say 10.04 or before.
I never had any problem, but I payed closed attention to the following fact :

- When using a 3.4.0-030400rc6-generic kernel, everything was fine.
- Since updating to 3.5.0-17-generic, problems began.

I don't have any encrypted partition, I'm using Xubuntu, but googling around for a while lead me to say this is the same issue. I'm not an expert but I read something has changed with hid-generic, some naming or some module inclusion (...?...).

At every new kernel release, I installed them and tried them, but the symptoms are still the same :
At boot time, my mouse and my keyboard are OK in the bios setup and in grub.
After that, the kernel is booting and the system loading, but then, my keyboard and my mouse become non responsive :
- the laser of my mouse is on, but no cursor move
- the leds of my keyboard are on, but even switching on/off of caps lock is non responsive
Unplugging/plugging does not help. Even on other usb ports.

I'm using initramfs-tools version 0.103ubuntu0.2.
I tried to add things in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
 :
hid_generic
hid-generic #I wasn't sure of the typo, I tried both
usbhid
hid
mac_hid

I have MODULES=most in initramfs.conf

Every time, I updated the initramfs this way :
update-initramfs -u -k 3.7.0-030700rc2-generic
as this is the last kernel I have so far.

Every reboot on this update kernel lead to the same end : no keyboard not mouse response.

So, until a workaround comes to work, I'm still stuck with a 3.4.0-030400rc6-generic kernel. Not that bad, but I was wondering what non-geek users would have done in my case.

I'd be very very glad to help experts to test any solution they would propose.