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PSA: Lenovo Laptops broken keyboards kernel 6.4.6 regression (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a PSA I ran into an issue with my Lenovo Slim Pro X (14ARH7) took me a while to figure it out. There is a regression in the 6.4.6 kernel that breaks the keyboard on many Lenovo laptops. Here is a link to the bug report

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217718

So either pin you kernel to 6.4.5 or use the the LTS kernel. I went the LTS kernel route until this is fixed.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes I noticed this yesterday. Thanks for posting, I wasn't sure if the keyboard actually broke. The functions keys worked but not the actual keys.

Will pin the kernel, thanks.

I have the exact same model as you have too. It's an ok laptop but I hate the flat keyboard and the annoying lights when it's sleeping. Lights up my bedroom. Next laptop will be something else than Lenovo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had the same thought, I though maybe I was missing some dracut modules because I had switched to dracut from mkinitcpio. I have to stop doing more than one thing at a time because I updated my kernel while switching to dracut , so it sent me on a wild goose chase. Then I started thinking the keyboard was broke, bummed me out until I found that bug report.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the thing about Linux, we are always changing things so it's hard to know sometimes what the issue is :)