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So you can't switch to TTY with ctrl + alt + f1 (or f2, f3, f4) ?
You could try booting from live usb and check previous dmesg logs (/var/log/dmesg.0 or something, I think)
You could try to narrow the issue by trying to plug in other keyboard or mouse and check if that works.
If not, then probably not a touchpad/keyboard driver issue.
Are the crashes random? Could it be the system crashes when it's going to sleep/wake up after the system is idle?
I'll try to think something else when my hangover passes... :D
Uhmm for the most part its random. It was much less frequent the other day but not it's happening more and more. And yup, tried all the CTL alt f1-all of them lol like I'm aware logs will probably give the best insight but I don't know much about which log and what it all means plus they're long as fuck. Maybe I should look into log analyzers?
The dmesg logs show boot logs also from previous boots. It has timestamps. After a system freeze, try to reboot and issue sudo dmesg -T and look for the timestamp near the time of crash, is there anything suspicious?
Ahh so dmesg pretty much only collects info regarding kernel crashes or whatever? Do they usually retain stuff from the prior day or two? I haven't used my laptop much today, so no new crashes
Yes dmesg prints out kernel messages and it resets every boot. So any driver crashes etc should be there. https://superuser.com/questions/565927/differences-in-var-log-syslog-dmesg-messages-log-files