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tvidal

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Registered: 2020-06-18

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[SOLVED] keyboard not working on X/sddm

After the last update, a lot of things became very weird in my computer.

The main one is that the keyboard works on the tty text mode (single/rescue) but stops working as soon as X/sddm shows up.

I can use the touchpad to bring an on screen keyboard, type the password and login, but windows appear without border/decoration, only the touchpad works and I cannot shutdown the computer unless I press and hold the power button.

I can't find anything unusual on journalctl.

Any suggestion on how to troubleshoot this?

Thank you.

Last edited by tvidal (2025-04-12 12:07:12)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 63,021

Re: [SOLVED] keyboard not working on X/sddm

Do you run SDDM on X11 or wayland?
Do you have the same problem w/o SDDM when logging in from the multi-user.target (2nd link below) and starting an X11 server w/ startx?

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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tvidal

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Registered: 2020-06-18

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] keyboard not working on X/sddm

I finally found the issue....

https://github.com/linux-surface/libwac … /issues/19