I have an issue where my keyboard stops functioning periodically after getting stuck on repeat keys. All keys become unresponsive until I reboot. This is a linux specific issue (never happens on windows partition) and i have given up waiting for a fix (have tried latest stable ubuntu 6.2 kernal).

What i would like to do is be able to restart the inbuilt keyboard driver to avoid rebooting the computer. I can do this via a USB keyboard, and i also have a bash script that detects the keyboard getting “stuck”.

Running Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon (5.15.0-112-generic)

Thanks

I have seen other questions have success when using “sudo rmmod atkbd; sudo modprobe atkbd reset=1”. However, i get the error “rmmod: ERROR: Module atkbd is builtin.” so I assume this is no longer an option with recent kernels.

Is there an alternative way of restarting the keyboard driver without rebooting (ideally that works in Mint and Ubuntu)?