Hi all,
I am a new forum user, but quite an old Fedora fellow. I bought an ASUS Expertbook B1 without OS and I was trying to set up a fresh Fedora 38 install through USB boot device. The installation was smooth and the laptop works fine with BIOS settings and boot options, but, after booting the system, the laptop keyboard becomes totally unresponsive, with the CapsLock led lit.
Searching on Google, I found that several people before me experienced internal keyboard problems on new laptops under different Linux distros (Fedora/Ubuntu/Mint etc.) and most of them traced the problem up to the i8042 kernel module. So, I tested the following kernel parameter set:
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.2.9-300.fc38.x86_64 root=UUID=c0b68eb2-fdea-4922-aef5-ce4ff77f5e36 ro rootflags=subvol=root quiet i8042.debug=1
I then plugged in an external keyboard and issued a dmesg | grep i8042
, obtaining:
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.2.9-300.fc38.x86_64 root=UUID=c0b68eb2-fdea-4922-aef5-ce4ff77f5e36 ro rootflags=subvol=root quiet i8042.debug=1
[ 0.051482] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.2.9-300.fc38.x86_64 root=UUID=c0b68eb2-fdea-4922-aef5-ce4ff77f5e36 ro rootflags=subvol=root quiet i8042.debug=1
[ 1.361855] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 1.361856] i8042: PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
[ 1.361947] i8042: [0] 20 -> i8042 (command)
[ 1.362158] i8042: [0] 65 <- i8042 (return)
[ 1.362234] i8042: [0] 20 -> i8042 (command)
[ 1.362747] i8042: [2] 65 <- i8042 (return)
[ 1.364376] i8042: [2] 60 -> i8042 (command)
[ 1.364566] i8042: [2] 74 -> i8042 (parameter)
[ 1.364670] i8042: [2] 60 -> i8042 (command)
[ 1.364785] i8042: [2] 65 -> i8042 (parameter)
[ 1.364807] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 1.365152] i8042: [3] f2 -> i8042 (kbd-data)
[ 1.571920] i8042: [210] ed -> i8042 (kbd-data)
[ 1.780032] i8042: [418] 60 -> i8042 (command)
[ 1.780269] i8042: [418] 64 -> i8042 (parameter)
[ 1.780387] i8042: [418] 60 -> i8042 (command)
[ 1.780686] i8042: [418] 65 -> i8042 (parameter)
[ 1.780762] i8042: [418] fa <- i8042 (interrupt, 0, 0)
[ 1.780891] i8042: [419] Interrupt 1, without any data
Now, the “PNP: PS2” stuff can be solved by further adding a i8042.nopnp=1
kernel argument, but the keyboard remains unresponsive after system boot. Checking the journalctl boot error report (journalctl -b -p err
) I got the following:
Sep 03 16:40:54 fedora kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: PPM init failed (-16)
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0x000000001) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20221020/exoparg2-393)
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PC00.CNVW.EWRD due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20221020/psparse-529)
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora bluetoothd[849]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init vcp plugin
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora bluetoothd[849]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init mcp plugin
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora bluetoothd[849]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init bap plugin
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora thermald[866]: Unsupported condition 41 (Screen_state)
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora thermald[866]: Unsupported condition 9 (Aggregate_power_percentage)
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora thermald[866]: Unsupported condition 9 (Aggregate_power_percentage)
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora thermald[866]: Unsupported condition 9 (Aggregate_power_percentage)
Sep 03 16:40:58 fedora thermald[866]: Unsupported conditions are present
Sep 03 16:40:59 fedora kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
Sep 03 16:42:14 fedora abrt-notification[1752]: Process 1717 (main.py) of user 42 encountered an uncaught AttributeError exception
Sep 03 16:42:31 fedora gdm-password][1718]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Sep 03 16:42:33 fedora systemd[1765]: Failed to start app-gnome-at\x2dspi\x2ddbus\x2dbus-2148.scope - Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Sep 03 16:42:36 fedora gdm-launch-environment][1041]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Sep 03 16:42:59 fedora abrt-notification[3175]: Process 4344 (main.py) of user 1000 encountered an uncaught AttributeError exception
Sep 03 16:56:08 fedora abrt-notification[4075]: Process 1717 (main.py) of user 42 encountered an uncaught AttributeError exception
Sep 03 16:56:39 fedora gdm-password][4047]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Sep 03 16:56:56 fedora gdm-password][4110]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Sep 03 16:57:00 fedora gdm-launch-environment][3461]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Sep 03 16:57:16 fedora abrt-notification[5325]: Process 4344 (main.py) of user 1000 encountered an uncaught AttributeError exception
The details of my system were obtained with a call to inxi -Fxxxrz
and they are:
System:
Kernel: 6.2.9-300.fc38.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.39-9.fc38 clocksource: tsc Desktop: GNOME v: 44.0 tk: GTK v: 3.24.37
wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM v: 43.0 Distro: Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ASUS EXPERTBOOK B1502CBA_B1502CBA
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: B1502CBA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: B1502CBA.300 date: 01/18/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.8 Wh (88.5%) condition: 42.7/41.9 Wh (102.0%)
volts: 12.3 min: 11.8 model: X421-35 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: 10-core (2-mt/8-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1235U bits: 64
type: MST AMCP smt: enabled arch: Alder Lake rev: 4 cache: L1: 928 KiB
L2: 6.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2381 high: 2500 min/max: 400/4400:3300 cores: 1: 2500
2: 2500 3: 2500 4: 2500 5: 2500 6: 1072 7: 2500 8: 2500 9: 2500 10: 2500
11: 2500 12: 2500 bogomips: 59904
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,
DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4628
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-7:2 chip-ID: 13d3:5463
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0c02 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142
size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") modes: 1920x1080
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.1 renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)
direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:51c8
class-ID: 0401
API: ALSA v: k6.2.9-300.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.67 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:1a1f class-ID: 0200
IF: eno2 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-10:3 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11 class-ID: 6c010c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 3.85 GiB (0.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: 2400 MTFDKBA512QFM
size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: V3MA003 temp: 28.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 475.35 GiB used: 3.66 GiB (0.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 182 MiB (18.7%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 17.4 MiB (2.9%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 475.35 GiB used: 3.66 GiB (0.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.37 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm
No active dnf repos in: /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/_copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm.repo
1: copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm ~ https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/phracek/PyCharm/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cisco-openh264.repo
1: fedora-cisco-openh264 ~ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-cisco-openh264-$releasever&arch=$basearch
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-modular.repo
1: fedora-modular ~ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-modular-$releasever&arch=$basearch
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-modular.repo
1: updates-modular ~ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-modular-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
No active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing-modular.repo
No active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
1: updates ~ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
1: fedora ~ https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
1: google-chrome ~ https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver.repo
1: rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver ~ https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/metalink?repo=nonfree-fedora-nvidia-driver-$releasever&arch=$basearch
Active yum repos in: /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-steam.repo
1: rpmfusion-nonfree-steam ~ https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/metalink?repo=nonfree-fedora-steam-$releasever&arch=$basearch
Info:
Processes: 303 Uptime: 37m wakeups: 12146 Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est.
available: 7.37 GiB used: 1.54 GiB (20.9%) Init: systemd v: 253
target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash
v: 5.2.15 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.29
Could anyone help me understand why the laptop keyboard stops responding after boot (in spite of working perfectly in BIOS and GRUB) and hopefully solve the problem?
Thanks in advance!
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