Good morning, afternoon, evening dearest Zorin OS userbase.
I come to you with a specific issue, I use Zorin OS 16 on a new Lenovo i9 Yoga Slim, which has a built in touch screen. I assume the touch screen is giving some interference, as it doesn't recognize the physical keyboard when it is turned on.
I have tried reinstalling xserver-xorg, but that didn't seem to resolve the issue.
Can you edit grub and add a grub parameter to specify your keyboard for the system to see and use:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Find the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash "
and change it to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.direct i8042.dumbkbd"
(Yes, that says "dumb keyboard. )
Once done, hit ctrl+x to exit, hit the y key to say yes to save, then the enter key to save as current configuration and close.
Once done, in terminal update the grub:
Ugh, I'm going to move down the list, it's a strange issue, after a third reboot the keyboard is not functioning again. I'm going to try your other solutions as well.
Oh! There seems to be something in line with a previous issue like this, perhaps this can be of some use? https://zoringroup.com/forum/4/14257/
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
It's worth a shot. Thinkpad is a little different from the yoga- Might ensure your grub file is back to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" then sudo update-grub if testing the keyboard reconfigure command.
Nice, I took a generic keyboard with Alt GR, and now the keyboard seems to be functioning Does Zorin OS remember this setting, or should there be an imput in the grub settings?
Woah, the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="atkbd.reset=1 i8042.nomux=1 i8042.reset=1 i8042.nopnp=1 i8042.dumbkbd=1 quiet splash" has succesfully launched my keyboard!
I'm going to try rebooting a few times, to see if it sticks!
Three reboots along, and it seems like my keyboard is here to stay! Thank you so much!