How to Fix Problems with keyboard input on Big Sur laptop installation

By Freirburro
0

How to Fix Problems with keyboard input on Big Sur laptop installation

This mini-guide provides a structural approach to troubleshoot and fix the issue.

Prerequisites

  • Confirm your hardware specifications (CPU, GPU, Motherboard).
  • Ensure you have a bootable recovery USB and backup your EFI.

Fix Steps

  1. Check your ACPI patches (SSDTs) for battery and trackpad (e.g., VoodooI2C, SMCBatteryManager).
  2. Ensure you have applied the correct IRQ patches if audio or trackpad is missing.
  3. Perform an NVRAM reset after modifying SMC-related kexts.

Verification

  • Reboot and verify if the functionality is restored and stable under typical usage.

Original Question:

In big Sur, the keyboard doesn't work. I have a ps2 keyboard and an i2c touchpad. The touchpad works but the keyboard doesn't. When I went through open core install guide, I added the VoodooPS2, VoodooI2C and VoodooI2CHID kexts but now I am not sure if this a proper configuration for my ps2 keyboard and I2c touchpad. Is there a prescribed set of kexts for my configuration?

submitted by /u/hdqwerty
[link] [comments]
Share:

Leave a Reply

Loading comments...