The site may be on/off today as we're going to be upgrading some key services on the server (php, nginx, kernel, etc...). If it breaks, we promise to fix it :)
I reverted back to Kernel 5.4.0-42. This did cure my keyboard issue. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1274890/ubuntu-20-04-keyboard-not-working was the link that I used.
Was a bit fast suggesting it is this bug. It sounds like it, but so far for HP and Acer's using the 5.4.0-45 Kernels. Should list your computer and your kernel to make sure. uname -a in terminal for kernel. External USB or wireless keyboards and mice do seem to work. – crip659 Sep 14 at 11:29...
I reverted back to an earlier version,18.04 when keyboard & touch pad worked but that did not fix my problem. I think this could be an Acer internal problem & not a Linux kernel issue!!!!
The answer to question 1 is the keyboard but not the mouse work in BIOS environment, I do have a USB stick with ubunto 18.04 ( upgraded from that to 20.04 ) & any important files are on a flash drive.
Don't know how to revert back to the previous kernel. Can you help?
file:This is the screen shot after Old Tom's case 2. This still doesn't cure my keyboard issue. Any more suggestions or fixes?
as per the 1st. post /8GB DDR3,pentiumN3530(quad core) @ 2.16GHz,251 GB SSD Ubuntu 20.04.The laptop is 8 - 10 yrs. old had originally Windows 8.1. In terminal I tried step 5 & entered the install xserver etc. to no avail. I use the keyboard from my desktop entered esc key & got into GRUB menu...