Keyboard not working after install.

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Owen Thomas wrote:

>I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on it and turned it on for the first time.
>I found that the keyboard wouldn't work. That is curious because it
>was working while it was being installed. The keyboard works only
>after I go through the GRUB menu, selecting first "Advanced Options
>of Ubuntu", then "Ubuntu With Linux 5.15.0-43 generic" the third
>option of this subment. The keyboard not working problem appears to
>happen when I select the first option from this submenu: "Ubuntu,
>with Linux 6.5.0-14 generic".

Just curious, but how did you get the 6.5.0-14-generic kernel? I'm
running an up-to-date Kubuntu 22.04 LTS and these are my two kernels:

linux-image-5.15.0-89-generic
linux-image-5.15.0-91-generic

>Any ideas?

Here are a couple of possibilities:

This page suggests that Ubuntu might think your computer is a tablet
and gives a few suggestions for what can be done about it:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1274890/ubuntu-20-04-keyboard-not-working

I'm suspecting that if that's not it, it might be a botched driver
installation in which initrd doesn't get properly updated. I get those
from time to time with my video driver on kernel updates and they can
also happen during initial installations of the operating system. This
clears it up for me:

1. Boot into GRUB.
2. Choose an older kernel.
3. Open a terminal window.
4. Fetch and update the local list of packages from the Ubuntu
repositories:
	sudo apt update 
5. Upgrade all packages, intelligently handling dependencies:
	sudo apt full-upgrade
6. Check for broken packages and fix them:
	sudo apt install --fix-broken
7. Update initrd for only the latest kernel, leaving the older
kernel(s) untouched as fall-backs:
	sudo update-initramfs -u
8. Reboot:
	sudo shutdown -r now

-- 
Little Girl

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