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

[Phil Perry]

On 12/06/2020 19:00, Jeremy Yocum wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi Jeremy,

I wonder if you have an issue similar to described in this bug report:

https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=496