Slackware64 15.0 and OpenSuSE keyboard failures on Asus A16 laptop
by PurpleSquirrel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6FYVB)
Brand-new Asus A16 laptop, specific model FA617NS. I wanted to install Slackware64 15.0 and had an appallingly bad experience with it. Press a key, wait five minutes. Press another, wait some more. As a test I grabbed an OpenSUSE Leap ISO and wrote it to a USB stick. The keyboard did not work at that point, so I started trying some things.
Dropping back to Slackware64 14.2 did not change matters.
The -current ISO I found on-line didn't work either. I am currently writing a newly created -current ISO to a USB stick for another try.
I got to thinking about the keyboard, so I grabbed a USB keyboard and plugged it in. And it worked at least two orders of magnitude better than it did before. I was able to select a keyboard map and log in as root, which was more than I could do from the laptop's keyboard.
Is there a kernel option I can use to use the USB keyboard driver, either in the updated 15.0 kernel or in the -current kernel? As another approach, is there a way to disable UEFI on the laptop and go straight legacy?
Dropping back to Slackware64 14.2 did not change matters.
The -current ISO I found on-line didn't work either. I am currently writing a newly created -current ISO to a USB stick for another try.
I got to thinking about the keyboard, so I grabbed a USB keyboard and plugged it in. And it worked at least two orders of magnitude better than it did before. I was able to select a keyboard map and log in as root, which was more than I could do from the laptop's keyboard.
Is there a kernel option I can use to use the USB keyboard driver, either in the updated 15.0 kernel or in the -current kernel? As another approach, is there a way to disable UEFI on the laptop and go straight legacy?