XPS 13: keyboard and touchpad dead after closing the lid

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:11:52 +0200

Closed the lid of my Dell XPS 13 (7390) to let it suspend, opened it back up later and could log in fine: screen came back, lock screen and everything. But then… nothing. Keyboard didn’t type, touchpad didn’t move the cursor. The machine looked perfectly alive, it just wouldn’t take any input. Only way out was a hard reset.

Digging into the logs

Since it happened again, I checked what the previous boot’s journal had to say about the suspend/resume cycle:

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XPS 13: keyboard and touchpad dead after closing the lid

Digging into the logs