Laptops keyboard not working after update. Used timeshift to old snapshots, it works, but I run apt update/upgrade and it stops working.

I’m going crazy!

An external keyboard works, but not the one built into the laptop. It’s so weird that when I run update and upgrade is when it breaks. But if I don’t updTe on an old snapshot it still works. It’s driving me crazy!

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u/AncientAgrippa 1d ago edited 1d ago

Update: booting with older kernel works. I’ll just be doing this for now until I find the real issue I guess

Unfortunately I still need a keyboard plugged in on boot to select the older kernel works

Edit: changed grub default so I don’t need the external keyboard

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u/i0uri 1d ago

Same here on asus ROG g14 (2022). Slight difference: keyboard arrows work to select previous version but keyboard not responding afterwards. I get the following errors in the beginning of the boot sequence:
Asus failed to request functions :-75 (-EOVERFLOW)
Failed to initialize blacklight

I'll be sending a report to the maintainers.

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u/shcmt 1d ago

I have the same model I think its the 2022 model. 9500hs, 16gb ram, rtx 3060 6gb...

Maybe I'll toss a usb in and see what's up.

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u/AncientAgrippa 1d ago

Seems like a complicated issue, I’m just gonna not bother honestly and keep booting the old kernel haha.

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u/AncientAgrippa 1d ago

Woah yeah I’m on an asus g16. Not enough time to look too much into it but I’m glad I have a work around for now.

Not sure what happened because it was working fine until it didn’t t

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u/i0uri 1d ago

Update 6.12.111-1 recently and booted this morning with missing keyboard

u/lwh 1d ago

check journalctl --list-boots and find a bad one, compare it to a good one see if anything sticks out for keyboard or USB

u/shcmt 1d ago

Out of curiosity, what model laptop are you using?

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u/AncientAgrippa 1d ago

ASUS G16 can’t remember what year but I think I got it 2 years ago

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u/shcmt 1d ago

I think this thread might be useful for you as well as the other user here

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUSROG/comments/1uslyx1/a_bios_update_bricked_my_strix_g16s_keyboard_so_i/

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u/i0uri 1d ago

Keyboard in bios and in grub is fine on my side.