[arch-general] Dell latitude and keyboard problem

[Simon Hanna]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Sławek Kapłoński <slawek at kaplonski.pl>
wrote:

> So I'm almost sure that problem is somewhere in linux keyboard driver and
> how it works with keyboard in this laptop model but I have no idea how to
> fix this problem or how to get any details about it :/
>

It's not the cleanest approach, but if you cant find any other solution:
Back everything up and restore the config files to default states.

A quick google for your notebook showed that it IS working using archlinux
[1]
[1] references a french site with some configurations for your notebook.
You might wanna check this out too. [2]

In fact your notebook is even certified for ubuntu [3]

So it really looks like some config files are messed up...
(Or since it's arch, newer packages break things. You might wanna try
ubuntu from a usb drive just to be sure...)

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_Latitude_E7440
[2]
http://williamhollacsek.com/blog/2013/09/12/dell-latitude-e7440-optimisation
[3] http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201304-13408/