On Saturday, 4 October 2025 00:08:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Since lsusb shows it, doesn't that mean it should > work? Or can it show up and still not work? Keep in mind, it did work > in the old sysrescue thingy so the keyboard itself is fine. However, it > did not work on the new Gentoo rescue images. It does work within the > Ventoy menus. I can use the arrow keys and return to navigate and > select in the menu. Once I tell it to boot, no keyboard again. Only > the old sysrescue image works.
Does Xorg.0.log reveal anything about the keyboard, e.g. a missing kernel driver? You can compare the kernel config of the liveUSB image which works and your own kernel config, as well as the corresponding dmesg output. In particular check the USB, HID and KEYBOARD modules. In case your kernel image on disk has been corrupted due to the faulty memory stick, you could rebuilt it and copy it over to /boot. PS. It is unlikely you need UHCI, if you have OHCI enabled in your kernel for USB 1.1.
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