I have a HP laptop and at the start of every login screen the whole keyboard doesn't want to work until I fiddle with buttons
I try fn+F1-F9 and sometimes right click on the password prompt and keep tapping Esc until it blinks then I'm able to imput a password
It has always done this on all Linux distributions I can't even get a try open as the whole thing is unresponsive usually works after a few minutes of doing the mentioned process above
It would be nice to get my keyboard working without me having to fiddle with it on every boot
Not home at the moment but as soon as I get home I will have a look using the apt list xorg command to see if it's installed and install if needed
I don't think that it's the drivers but it is a possibility as I'm not ruling anything out.
The annoying thing is that it randomly started one day however I've never dropped it could be a bug in a package as fedora used to always give me xorg-x11-drv-intel error on each boot in
I found a bug report on this and the only suggestion is the following workaround: Add the Boot Parameter i8042.dumbkbd=1
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Arrow key to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and add the parameter to make it look exactly like: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.dumbkbd=1"
Tap ctrl+x to exit, then y to say yes to save, then enter key.
The terminal will revert to normal. Now run
I will test in the morning when I get the chance as I have to sleep for work unfortunately.
It would probably mess with my current config of me having it as =show so I can select my login kernel at least on my linux mint laptop (same model) however it might work for my Zorin OS build where picking the kernel isn't needed as it's just my production machine for podcast recording and editing.
I marked your post as a solution as it does work however I feel it is the drivers in the kernel just haven't 'loaded' yet as it seems aboout the same timeframe in the keyboard being responsive and it seems to affect newer HP laptop models only
for work unfortunately.