Keyboard not working

enrico68 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Oct 2016 Posts: 241

Hello forum,

after a successful boot into Gentoo, at the prompt, when I try to enter root and my password, the keyboard does not respond. I installed Gentoo using the Live Gentoo CD, where I had no issues.
I checked the locales, the keymap settings,everything was done according to the Handbook. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad, and Thinkpad_acpi has been enabled in the kernel. I am using the Gentoo kernel 6.12.16.
Any help is much appreciated. If more information is needed, please ask, and I will provide it.

Regards.

pietinger · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2025 1:01 pm Post subject:

enrico68,

do you use our Gentoo distribution kernel or a manually configured kernel? Do you have this enabled? ->

enrico68 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Oct 2016 Posts: 241

Hello pietinger,

I use a manually configured kernel, and I followed your tutorial for the setup. Unfortunately, under the "Device Drivers" section, under keyboard, there is a question mark, and your note below it: "

pietinger · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2025 12:32 pm Post subject:

Hello Enrico,

great if it works now ... maybe I have misunderstood your problem because you wrote "when I try to enter root and my password". My guess was that you enter the PW to reach the root partition. If you would describe more exactly what happens at your system start I could edit my description in my wiki article to be more precise.

... and as you already knows You are very Welcome.

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enrico68 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Oct 2016 Posts: 241

pietinger,

Sorry for my brief and vague explanation...what I meant was that, once I rebooted my laptop and got to the console, I tried to log in, but my keyboard had no sign of life. So, I went through your tutorial step by step searching for the keyboard section, and skipped the keyboard setting once again, since I do not encrypt my root partition, nor do I have an old keyboard.

The keyboard setting is found in the tutorial for kernel version 6.12, under the "Device Drivers" section.

pietinger · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:15 pm Post subject:

Hmm ... unfortunately I can't remember exactly ... but I think there used to be an option in old BIOS systems for the BIOS to present a USB mouse as a PS/2 mouse as a “service”. Perhaps you have activated this option in the BIOS?
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