Major keyboard problems! Plz help

[chip ling]

Good Morning Pineland -

First, I am not really a noob even though this issue will sound like it! I have used Linux almost 20 years and ARM chips about 5...

Got my new Pinebook64 Pro a few days ago and love it. Couldn't wait to try some other distros. But I could not get it to boot from the MicroSD any way I tried. Ran updates, etc. to no avail. Then I tried the keyboard update for ANSI keyboard and it seemed to run fine, and requested a reboot.

After the reboot, the keyboard is mapped completely differently and I can't even enter the username or password.

I booted with an external keyboard, which works fine, and checked the keyboard setup, which was still reporting US English. I added a second layout, deleted the US English, and re-added US English. No dice.

So I guess my questions are:

• How do I get the correct keyboard layout back?
  
• And, once I do that, how do I get the MicroSD to boot?
  

Thanks to all who read this!

Tim

That is the expected behavior, check closely with the post. On the What you'll need section.

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8407

It says you have to have an external USB keyboard attached to it or you can access to the Pinebook Pro via ssh.

Chip