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I just watched part of a tutorial of someone replacing a lenovo keyboard and I can confidently say that I would never be able to do it.

It's very fiddly and I am clumsy as <insert suitable really foul expletive here>

I'll be using this external keyboard until

a/ I win the lottery
b/ the laptop ...

No response on any key with xev

Thanks so much for explaining that :)

Sorry to ask such questions but what a secure boot and why do I need to disable it?

Hi
onboard works fine.

I tried showkey and none of the letters registered at all

Hi

Thanks for those.

The first one seems to be if you installed Linux and that made the keyboard not work.

Well I have used Linux on this laptop for the whole 4 years that I have had it and it only stopped working this morning. I used it first thing but when I rebooted (had not done an update ...

[CODE]System: Kernel: 5.10.0-26-amd64 [5.10.197-1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-26-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3 ...

Hello all. Not sure yet if this is a hardware or software issue, so feel free to move my post.

I switched on my laptop this morning to find that the keyboard doesn't work!

The function keys are the only ones that still seem to work.

Had to log in with the on screen keyboard and am currently using ...

Being very not technically minded, I have no idea what this means

apt provides a high-level commandline interface for the package management system. It is intended as an end
user interface and enables some options better suited for interactive usage by default compared to more
specialized APT ...

We don't ever tend to use CD's here so the download what the easy option.