Laptop keyboard not working

Matt-T10

Hi, I'm very new to solus and relatively new and inexperienced with Linux. The keyboard on my Acer CB3-431 Chromebook doesn't work where as external keyboards do. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the inbuilt keyboard to work?

Thanks in advance

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@Matt-T10
Try this link gives the instructions on how to set up keyboard for Chromebooks
https://github.com/Vistaus/Solus-Linux-on-Dell-Chromebook-13/wiki/Step-%234:-The-right-keyboard-layout
Should work on all Chromebooks

Matt-T10

[deleted] hi, thank you very much for your reply. I've already tried these steps with no luck

Justin

Chromebooks, Apple products are not great machines for running Linux on. Too many custom bits. I'd Google your Chromebook model number with linux keyboard and see what comes up.

Matt-T10

Justin I've been able to get it working on pretty much every distro that isn't Solus or openSUSE. Arch worked perfectly, any Ubuntu based distros work and fedora works. It seems to be a kernel issue which was fixed in 4.13. It appears as if Solus uses a more recent kernel and should therefore work but doesn't.

Justin

Matt-T10 That's IF the module was selected when building the kernel.

Matt-T10

Justin any way I could install the needed module(s)?

Justin

Matt-T10 First you'll need to identify which ones.

Matt-T10

Justin Hi, sorry for such a late reply it's been a very busy week. It appears that something called 'ChromeOS AT Keyboard' needs to be enabled.