Pointing devices and most of keyboard stop working on 20.10 system

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 11:45 PM Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> On a UbuntuMATE 20.10 system, after I reboot the computer, which I
> have to do now, every session, after about 5-10 minutes of
> deteriorating use, the mouse dominant button stops working, then,
> after a while, the non-dominant button stops working; this is for a
> "laptop" computer, and, the buttons on the trackpad then are not
> working, and the "F" buttons on the external keyboard, and the
> <CTRL><alpha character> combination (eg, <CTRL><q>), does not work,
> and, about all I can do is use the <CTRL><ALT><DEL> combination, to go
> to a shutdown or reboot.
>
> If I reboot the sytem, and, leave it standing, with no applications
> opened, it deteriorates as described above, after a few minutes.
>
> How do I find what is happening with the operating system?
>
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Could be hardware failure.  Use "Disks" to check the hard drive.

gary
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