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raphix

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From: France

Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 56

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Backspace not working when upgrading kernel?

My HP laptop has had some issues, so I was using kernel 6.13.8.
Yesterday, I uncommented the line preventing the upgrade in pacman.conf, and performed a full upgrade, going to kernel 6.16.4.

I quickly noticed that the backspace key of the internal keyboard was no longer working (presses not detected as events in xev).
All other keys were working.

I reverted back to kernel 6.13.8, and it is back.

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
sudo pacman -U linux-6.13.8.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst linux-headers-6.13.8.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo reboot

What could cause this?

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Backspace not working when upgrading kernel?

nb. that there're ongoing network issues in 6.16.2,3,4 - probably wait until 6.16.5 hits core anyway.
Is the key registered by "evtest" or "libinput debug-events"?
This is the atkbd/i8042 keyboard concerned in the  other thread?
Do you (still) issue any related module parameters?

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