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#1 2016-05-09 09:48:27

shaurz
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[FIXED] Keyboard not working on T450s

For some unknown reason the keyboard on my T450s doesn't work in Arch Linux. I have to plug in an external USB keyboard.

Strangely though Fn+Space to enable the backlight does work!

The touchpad is working 100% fine after installing the xf86-input-synaptics driver.

Do I need to install any drivers for they keyboard? This isn't mentioned anywhere on the wiki page so I assumed this would "just work".

Last edited by shaurz (2016-05-09 14:23:26)

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#2 2016-05-09 09:53:13

shaurz
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Re: [FIXED] Keyboard not working on T450s

Another thing I discovered...

The brightness control keys work, I even get the OSD in KDE Plasma.

But I can't type anything in to a text field.

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#3 2016-05-09 10:29:19

speedyx
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Re: [FIXED] Keyboard not working on T450s

I installed xf86-input-libinput and works on my T450s


I love archlinux: the last STABLE kernel release + the last STABLE DE release + the last STABLE apps releases. The upstream developers decide what is STABLE.

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#4 2016-05-09 11:19:44

shaurz
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Re: [FIXED] Keyboard not working on T450s

I tried installing the xf86-input-libinput package but this only made the touchpad work strangely and didn't help with the keyboard so I removed it.

I figured out the problem - the keyboard works after manually modprobe-ing the atkbd module. I guess I need to add this to my modules-load.d list.

Last edited by shaurz (2016-05-09 11:21:05)

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#5 2016-05-09 11:24:14

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Re: [FIXED] Keyboard not working on T450s


"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" -  Richard Stallman

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