MacBook Air Keyboard and Trackpad don't work in Windows
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My 2013 MacBook Air 11" built in keyboard and trackpad are not working when I use rEFInd. Needed to install it in order to get my eGPU working. Just did a fresh reinstall of Windows 10 and it initially messed up my EFI installation, and the keyboard and trackpad were working fine. Once I reinstalled rEFInd they stopped working so it certainly seems to be the cause.
Are you using the macOS spoofing option or not? In addition to changing the GPU behavior, it also does something with the keyboard and trackpad. I have the drivers installed on my Windows partition, and it works great even with spoofing enabled, but I cannot use the keyboard and trackpad in Ubuntu when spoofing. I'm guessing it changes something related to some abstraction layer for the keyboard and trackpad—perhaps the firmware exposes the keyboard and trackpad using a less-advanced, more common interface if not spoofed.
I suggest disabling spoofing, install the drivers, then go back and reenable spoofing and you should hopefully be good.
Ended up just holding option to bypass refind when I am not on the egpu, that