Wireless mouse and keyboard not working after restarting

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I’ve used linux for many years and I installed Fedora 43 a few months ago on my PC. Appart from having usual linux issues like GPU drivers and my wifi module not been supported by the kernel, I manage to have a stable setup.

Since few days ago, I noticed that my pc was not recognizing my wireless mouse and keyboard, when I see the login screen the mouse and keyboard doesn’t work, so I have to unplug and plug again the USB dongle of each device and then it works fine. So I was wondering if someone know what may be the problem

This is my mouse and keyboard

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 012: ID 0b05:1a94 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. ROG HARPE ACE AIM LAB EDITION
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0b05:1a85 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. ROG AZOTH

uname -a
Linux fedora 6.19.8-200.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 13 22:06:06 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Linux has been removing device-dependent code for human input devices (HID) by moving to HID report descriptors as described in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.19-rc6/hid/hidintro.html. There are also power management changes. See: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/q111o3n3-4so9-5nr3-4q63-51rp645n8420@xreary.bet/. I wonder if ROG didn’t contribute changes needed to fully support their devices in time for 6.19. You may be left to using the unplug workaround until the required changes appear, either from ROG or some Linux user of ROG devices.

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Interesting, thank you so much for the info.

I was checking for patches on this here Making sure you're not a bot! but I was not able to see anything yet. So I guess I will have to use the cable for a while.