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PizzaTheHut92

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Registered: 2015-05-05

Posts: 5

Built-in Keyboard not working randomly

I don't think I did anything. I was just using Arch and it was working fine yesterday, but then when I started up this morning I couldn't type in my login. The keyboard works in Grub, and in my Windows installation, but not in Arch. My step brother suggested blowing away my install as he did when he messed with his kernel, but I plugged in a wireless keyboard and that works, as well as my mouse. I'd like to *not* have to completely uninstall and reconfigure all of the stuff I've done so far. If it helps any I'm on a Satellite L875D-S7332.

gay

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Registered: 2012-12-16

Posts: 93

Re: Built-in Keyboard not working randomly

Do you perhaps have a little more info for us? E.g. from

xinput list

and

ls -l /dev/input/*

and

dmesg|grep keyboard

or perhaps the entire dmesg?

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PizzaTheHut92

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Registered: 2015-05-05

Posts: 5

Re: Built-in Keyboard not working randomly

For some reason it's working again now. Arch is weird. Just kind of does what it wants.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,655

Re: Built-in Keyboard not working randomly

For some reason it's working again now. Arch is weird. Just kind of does what it wants.

Nope.  It does whatever you told it to do when you installed it.

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