No keyboard on TTY

Hi,

I can’t use my keyboard when switching to a TTY. I’m using a Dell Laptop but it also does not work with an external keyboard. Other than that, I have no keyboard problems.

I’m using kernel 5.10 but I have this problem on other kernels as well.

As soon as I’m switching to a TTY, I can’t do anything anymore. It is not possible to switch back to the Xorg TTY.

inxi output
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.49-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=79bf1c36-12bf-4589-99f7-0cd7daa0ba39 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Precision 7510 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0M1YNP v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.15.4 
  date: 12/08/2017 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 35.0 Wh (69.9%) condition: 50.1/91.0 Wh (55.0%) 
  volts: 12.0 min: 11.4 model: LGC-LGC3.975 DELL RDYCT type: Li-ion 
  serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.29 GiB used: 1.95 GiB (6.2%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6920HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Skylake-S family: 6 model-id: 5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: EA cache: 
  L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 46419 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est 
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle ht hwp hwp_act_window 
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm 
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts 
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good rtm sdbg sep smap smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 
  sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust 
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt 
  xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM107GLM [Quadro M2000M] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:13b0 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-11:5 chip-ID: 1bcf:28b8 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver: 
  loaded: nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa 
  display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
  diag: 395mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NV117 v: 4.3 Mesa 21.1.4 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX] vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbc 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.49-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.31 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel 
  port: f000 bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b7 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 
  bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24f3 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Permissions: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required. 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: f020 
  bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.2822 rev: 31 class-ID: 0104 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 134.22 GiB (28.1%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Intel model: SSDSC2BF512A5 SATA 512GB 
  size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: LB1i scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 215.7 GiB size: 211.82 GiB (98.20%) 
  used: 134.2 GiB (63.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A 
  uuid: 79bf1c36-12bf-4589-99f7-0cd7daa0ba39 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) 
  used: 25.3 MiB (26.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: N/A 
  uuid: 9C30-AC9F 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 500 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: System Reserved uuid: 6622FA4222FA16B1 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 260.11 GiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: 40F4315EF43156FE 
  ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 552 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: 8EEA8DD5EA8DB9CB 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID 
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 1-10:4 info: Broadcom 5880 type: Smart Card driver: N/A 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a5c:5832 
  class-ID: 0b00 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 1-11:5 info: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 1bcf:28b8 class-ID: 0e02 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: 45.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: nouveau 
  temp: 49.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 275 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: apt: 0 pacman: 1714 lib: 455 
  Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.05 

Does anyone has an idea how to solve this?

Ping because I got the same issue on a different laptop, see comment [Stable Update] 2021-07-13 - Kernels, Plasma 5.22, Cinnamon 5, Gnome 40, LibreOffice, Mesa, Nvidia, Pamac - #267 by doublearch

Essentially no keyboard on tty, as op mentions. I chrooted and enabled GNOME while we get an answer, so at least my laptop is functional. But it’s very annoying not to be able to get into X at all.