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Trouble with keyboard (gist.github.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey people! I hope you are having good time I recently installed arch, but I have trouble with my keyboard during installation and post installation which is null character (^@) printed to stdout, if I pressed function or Esc key null character stop appearing until some command wait for input (e.g. passwd) or pacman updating repo which will mess up progress bar or install conformation

I managed to install arch by enabling ssh with shell redirection, since I can't use vim or nano. I thought post installation everything should go fine since I installed base, linux, linux-firmware and amd-ucode packages, but now I can't log in as a result of null character

I should also mention that my problem across many distros like mint and mint xfce4, parrot, fedora, arch and EndeavourOS

note:

hot keys (sound, brightness control keys etc.) work fine on fedora, but not on EndeavourOS version (25/06/2024)
Keyboard response time feel slow, and I can't repeat key press by holding the key (e.g. hold backspace to delete several characters)
vim not working, it will switch from insert to normal mode
nano will go to end of file by moving line by line
Sometime in live arch iso systemctl log will interrupt and appear

additional note: I think Fn key is what causing the problem

the gist is output from fedora workstation 40.1 livecd I think it may help

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

If you think it's a keyboard problem it would help for you to provide info about your keyboard