Keyboard, trackpad stops working after unfolding

I've consistently had a similar problem and it's not necessary to close the lid.

My mid-2012 MBA's trackpad and keyboard will not function after waking it from display sleep only. I have it plugged into an HP monitor (zr2740w) over minidisplay port. I keep a memory card in the flash card slot fwiw. The power adapter is attached to the MBA.

I found if vmware is running with its usb driver enabled, keyboard and trackpad will not function after waking from display sleep.

After disabling vmware's usb driver, closing fusion, then the issue crops up if I have a usb hub attached when the display goes to sleep. Every time.

I have a workaround for the second situation. I can unplug the usb device and wait for the display to sleep again, then keyboard and trackpad will work when I wake it.

It's so sad this appears to be a problem that has been around for years! Could it be OSX simply does not wake its internal usb controller properly?

OSX 10.9.1, Vmware fusion 5.0.3

My Macbook Pro 15" Retina running Yosemite also has been having this problem lately. I am not running any VM's as mentioned above. I do have a USB hub plugged in, but I think it lost the keyboard without the hub.

I have a USB mouse plugged into the hub and that remains working properly, just no keyboard input possible. I can close programs and log out using the mouse. Only a restart using the mouse fixes the keyboard.

Like Jonny, I use VirtualBox to run XP and notice the issue occurred only when I left VBox running.. I'd come back to the machine and find keyboard and trackpad unresponsive; the only way to get back in for to force a shut-down.

I came across this thread just minutes after I realised I could probably use TeamViewer to dial into the mac, and sure enough, it was working just fine, just that the keyboard and trackpad on the macbook was being unresponsive.

Interestingly, once I logged in to the mac, there was a window looking for a bluetooth keyboard, and when I switched across to the vbox, there was an alert that some peripheral could not be attached.

At one point, I had all the USB inputs working perfectly with VirtualBox (by installing the Guest Additions image), so I could plug in USB things into the virtual machine, but it stopped working at some point and now it throws the same error (unable to attach <peripheral>).

Almost certain this is the problem. No idea (yet) about how to solve, apart from ensuring that the virtual machine is turned off when the machine is put to sleep. If I figure it out, I'll update this thread, as it's annoying to find the machine has 'frozen'

Sorry for the long reply 🙂

I think I'd try both a SMC and Pram resetl Here are instructinos for both:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Regards,

Captfred

Mine has never experienced the issue.

I'd have Apple take a look at it.

Weird, I can't reproduce it by running virtualbox and then just selecting sleep. Not sure what other factors are needed. Perhaps longer sleep. Will try your solution next time it happens.

I have the same problem today, my macbook air is 2012-mid 13inch.

Nope, no solution found yet, except shut down the VM before you close the lid.

I downloaded the latest version of VMware Fusion and no help. I am going to check into the background process. Also wondering if I might just have a hardware problem.

I am experiencing this same issue. However, unlike other posters in this thread, I'm not running VMWare or any virtualization software.

It's strange, I've not had the problem any more recently. I'm still using Lion. Even when leaving VirtualBox running there haven't been any problems with it freezing.

Hope you guys get it sorted soon.

the problem came back today, sigh.

Same thing... no WMare... new MacBook Retina keyboard & trackpad inactive after resuming from sleep mode. need an external mouse to reboot softly. Only installed xcode and Unity 3D 3.5.6.

In your case it's Unity. I had the same problem, though intermittently.

Thinking its similar to the VMwate issues since Unity runs a kind of VM.