[elrepo] Keyboard ceases functioning after install of kmod-nvidia-340xx

[Jeremy Yocum]

Hello ELRepo list—

This problem started immediately after installing the ELRepo Nvidia driver,
so I'm hoping one of you can help me.

I followed the instructions for installing the ELRepo Nvidia driver for
340xx. Rebooted my machine, and from that moment on my keyboard stops
functioning as soon as I leave the GRUB menu.

Everything appears to boot correctly, but when it reaches "Please enter
passphrase for disk TOSHIBA_MK5065GSXF
(luks-long-volumename-etc-etc-etc)!:" the cursor just blinks. The keyboard
is unresponsive. The caps lock light does not come on when I press caps
lock. No number of key combinations register anything. If I plug in a USB
drive at this time the screen displays "New USB device found [etc]." So the
system is alive and working, I just can't use the keyboard to communicate
with it.

I rebooted a few times, same issue over and over again.

I rebooted into recovery mode from an install ISO and couldn't find
anything suspicious (to me) in the logs. So I figured I'd just undo the
only thing I'd done since the last time the keyboard worked: I
uninstalled all the ELRepo Nvidia packages that were dependent on each
other.
- kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64.x86_64
- xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx.x86_64
- xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs.x86_64
All removed.

I rebooted, removed the grub parameters that the install added:
- nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouvea video=vesa:off
...and hit F10 to boot.

... and it still gets to the "Please enter passphrase" prompt and the
keyboard no longer works.

Any idea why the ELRepo Nvidia driver would cause this behavior?

Any idea how I can get it to work again?


— Jeremy
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