Hi Everyone, I've been trying to get my laptop keyboard to work for about over a day now. I've tried changing my kernel, changing drivers and giving parameters to grub. If someone has a solution to my problem I would greatly appreciate it.
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When you were installing Zorin, was your keyboard working while doing that (in the live environment)? I'm just wondering if this was ever working before installing.
No It never worked during install. I thought maybe some drivers needed to be installed after I installed it but the keyboard still doesn't work
Seems odd, the keyboard doesn't seem particularly special that I can tell. Have you tried logging in to the desktop using the Xorg session to see if it works there?
Also, if you can run
xinput list
And possibly see if the keyboard is even being detected. Another one you could run, although I typically don't see much with it is
sudo dmesg | grep -i keyboard
This might show some errors regarding the keyboard. But before those, I would try Xorg first to see if for some reason that's causing the issue.
| ⎡ Virtual core pointer | id=2 | [master pointer (3)] |
|---|---|---|
| ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer | id=4 | [slave pointer (2)] |
| ⎜ ↳ xwayland-pointer:14 | id=6 | [slave pointer (2)] |
| ⎜ ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:14 | id=7 | [slave pointer (2)] |
| ⎜ ↳ xwayland-pointer-gestures:14 | id=8 | [slave pointer (2)] |
| ⎣ Virtual core keyboard | id=3 | [master keyboard (2)] |
| ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard | id=5 | [slave keyboard (3)] |
| ↳ xwayland-keyboard:14 | id=9 | [slave keyboard (3)] |
| I got this when I input the xinput list |
When I put in the grep -i keyboard I got this
I think the keyboard on my laptop is not recognized for some reason
Ok so one idea I have is this:
Download dconf Editor from the software store
Then you're going to navigate desktop->ibus->general
Then enable use-system-keyboard-layout
Then we can see if that works. If it doesn't, the only other thing I can think of is try the Xorg desktop session instead of Wayland and see if that makes a difference.
Hopefully this will work, otherwise I'm out of ideas tbh.
EDIT: There's also an enable-by-default option in that same area of settings. I'm unsure if that may help, I have never tried it.
I'm sorry but even after enabling use-system-keyboard-layout, the keyboard still isn't working. If you or anyone else who has dealt with this has a solution I would greatly appreciate it.
When wondering about hardware compatibility, linux-hardware.org is the go-to resource:
SONiX USB DEVICE
It seems your keyboard only shows as working on OpenSuse. There may be some proprietary code or it may be something new that needs to be included in the latest kernel.
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The SONIX USB Device is the external keyboard that I'm using to type. I think the AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard is the one that isn't working
HW probe of ASUSTek ASUS Vivobook Pro 15... #255cbfe1e4 I did a hardware probe and the AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard is detected but it maybe it's not initializing for some reason. Could it be a Kernal Issue or something
Unknown AT Raw Set 2 keyboard Here is the probe of the internal keyboard
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