Keyboard?

[Sorin Srbu]

On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 22:45 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 05/02/2024 22:34, Owen Thomas wrote:
> > It's the laptop's internal keyboard.
> 
> That's even weirder. What's the make and model of laptop?
> 
> Keyboards are normally probed and enabled at the BIOS level, aren't 
> they? Like before anything to do with operating systems even starts?
> 
> > Do you think I should buy myself a USB one? 
> 
> I have a USB keyboard and a Bluetooth keyboard sitting in a drawer for 
> the rare occasions when some other piece of keyboard kit suddenly packs 
> up, because at worst one of them will probably enable me to type sudo 
> reboot.
> 
> > Does USB work "universally" according to its namesake?
> 
> I don't know, but all the USB keyboards I have come across have been 
> instantly recognised and enabled.

Hi all,

Could this be a legacy BIOS/UEFI BIOS-issue maybe?

I've run into _some_ USB keyboards that didn't work at install on both
laptops and desktop. They've all been brand keyboards from Logitech,
Microsoft and such like.
I also haven't been able to find a consistent logic with the non-working USB
keyboards, except that sometimes it takes a while and then suddenly they
work. Weird.

Internal laptop keyboards have always worked for me, regardless of laptop
brand, although they've been very well-known brands like HP, Dell,
IBM/Lenovo and so on.





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