Hi,
Recently midway through typing my password to login my keyboard seemed to stop working. I had installed pipewire through Bold Brew and restarted then the issue started.
I tried troubleshooting and was able to come up with the following information:
The keyboard seems to be recognized as a USB device, it appears with lsusb
when I try evtest the device it’s recognized, the event codes seem to be all present, and keys are picked up when clicked
*Properties:
Testing … (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1775182104.278304, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70004
Event: time 1775182104.278304, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 30 (KEY_A), value 1
Event: time 1775182104.278304, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1775182104.356299, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70016
Event: time 1775182104.356299, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 31 (KEY_S), value 1
Event: time 1775182104.356299, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1775182104.401297, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 70007
Event: time 1775182104.401297, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 32 (KEY_D), value 1
uname -a returns
Linux bazzite 6.17.7-ba29.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Mar 25 07:35:02 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux
system information:
System Details Report
Report details
- Date generated: 2026-04-04 00:31:22
Hardware Information:
- Hardware Model: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS
- Memory: 32.0 GiB
- Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X × 12
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3070
- Disk Capacity: 8.0 TB
Software Information:
- Firmware Version: 2423
- OS Name: Bazzite
- OS Build: (null)
- OS Type: 64-bit
- GNOME Version: 49
- Windowing System: Wayland
- Kernel Version: Linux 6.17.7-ba29.fc43.x86_64
I tried resetting bazzite to no success, uninstalled pipewire, reset keyboard settings, all to no avail.
Apologies for poor formatting, this was typed through KDE connect and copied out from terminal. Any help or insight would be appreciated, I’d like to avoid reinstalling.
Thanks