I'm completely puzzled by this, and I have no idea what to do nextĭiff -u 5.8.1 -416,14 +416,16 Asus WMI hotkeys: always reports core events This was clearly caused by a change in the kernel (yes, I've also tried 5.8.1, same thing), but it only manifests itself when a display server is running.
My guess is that these are low-level controls so they somehow bypass the problem. The sound control keys (fn+f10/f11/f12) do not work. I already talked about the sysrq key, but also fn+f1 (suspend), fn+f2 (airplane mode), fn+f7 (lock screen), fn+f9 (toggle touchpad) and the brightness control keys (fn+f5/f6).
There is, however, a caveat: some key combinations work. The moment a display server is started (Wayland or X), the keyboard and touchpad freeze, and also my usb mouse if it was already plugged in (if it wasn't, I can then plug it in and it works). I even tried just running xterm and xclock with startx, but nothing works.
At that point, I thought it was a plasma problem, so I installed i3.
However, still didn't work, which made me think it was an Xorg problem.Īfter that, I installed Wayland, but the problem persisted. So I thought maybe it was actually an sddm issue, so I installed xorg-xinit so I could start plasma manually (startx plasmashell). I disabled rvice, and the system boots and I can log in just fine from the tty.
