Hi,
I know this might be a question outside the scope of this forum, but i've been struggling with this issue for a while now, so i figured i might as well also ask here! I have recently bought a new laptop (a lenovo V15) that comes "bare metal" with freeDos installed. When i try to boot from a usb flash drive to install a linux distribution (i've tried several), this annoying bug appears where both my keyboard and my mousepad stop working, de facto preventing me from going further in the installation. Both keyboard and mouse work just fine when the install process has not started. I can even open a basic grub shell if i want (when installing ubuntu), but as soon as i begin the installation (or the booting process from the usb) it stops working. When i tried installing Mint, i noticed that my fn keys for screen brightness where working (even if they did not actually modify the brightness of the display), and also Fn + esc to disable Fn keys works as well, but everything else is completely dead.
Please let me know if someone has had similar issues
UPDATE:
Hi everyone. I managed to fix the issue. Apparently there was a problem with how the kernel handled interrupts coming from the keyboard. It has been fixed in the most recent kernels, but the kernel versions that are installed in ISO images of linux distributions are pretty behind from the actual version that fixes the problem. The way to fix this issue, if you ever encounter it, is to try connecting to your laptop an external keyboard and a mouse (i tried several before finding a combo that worked), boot and install the iso image on your machine, and then update the kernel to the latest stable version (or one of the latest). If you install a distribution like Manjaro, that comes with a built in tool to do kernel upgrades, it is very easy.
I know this might be a question outside the scope of this forum, but i've been struggling with this issue for a while now, so i figured i might as well also ask here! I have recently bought a new laptop (a lenovo V15) that comes "bare metal" with freeDos installed. When i try to boot from a usb flash drive to install a linux distribution (i've tried several), this annoying bug appears where both my keyboard and my mousepad stop working, de facto preventing me from going further in the installation. Both keyboard and mouse work just fine when the install process has not started. I can even open a basic grub shell if i want (when installing ubuntu), but as soon as i begin the installation (or the booting process from the usb) it stops working. When i tried installing Mint, i noticed that my fn keys for screen brightness where working (even if they did not actually modify the brightness of the display), and also Fn + esc to disable Fn keys works as well, but everything else is completely dead.
Please let me know if someone has had similar issues
UPDATE:
Hi everyone. I managed to fix the issue. Apparently there was a problem with how the kernel handled interrupts coming from the keyboard. It has been fixed in the most recent kernels, but the kernel versions that are installed in ISO images of linux distributions are pretty behind from the actual version that fixes the problem. The way to fix this issue, if you ever encounter it, is to try connecting to your laptop an external keyboard and a mouse (i tried several before finding a combo that worked), boot and install the iso image on your machine, and then update the kernel to the latest stable version (or one of the latest). If you install a distribution like Manjaro, that comes with a built in tool to do kernel upgrades, it is very easy.