<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi robert,<br></div>Thanks for you input.<br></div>No, the mouse/keyboard are USB.<br><br></div>And in fact sometimes the hotplugging works.<br></div>Maybe the error is only there after the laptop awakes from suspend mode.<br></div>The mouse/keyboard of the laptop itself works though. Always.<br><br><br><div><br><br><br><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Robert Heller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com" target="_blank">heller@deepsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">At Tue, 30 May 2017 08:47:35 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><wbr>> wrote:<br>
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> I connect my laptop to external mouse/keyboard/monitor through a Dell dock<br>
> TB16.<br>
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> When hotplugging the laptop to the dock, the external monitor always works<br>
> fine.<br>
> Mouse/Keyboard requires a laptop reboot to work.<br>
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> How can I troubleshoot this?<br>
> I am looking for a better solution than rebooting, a driver to reload or<br>
> service to restart.<br>
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> Laptop has Ubuntu 16.04, kernel 4.8.0-49-generic.<br>
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</span>Are the external Keyboard/Mouse using PS/2? If so, this is normal. Nothing<br>
you can do about it. PS/2 is not hot pluggable.<br>
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