As an additional measure, I'll use the touchscreen to highlight text in my terminal to get that process to start thinking, then hit Fn+Spacebar again to let Lenovo know I want keyboard control. If it doesn't (or if I'm impatient) I hit Fn+Spacebar again and again. Maybe in a minute or two without any additional steps it would let me type. I hit Fn+Spacebar to make sure Lenovo knows I want to use the keyboard (you will see your keyboard light up if it isn't already). I have my ubuntu start screen do auto-login, so I get to my desktop just fine without using the keyboard.

In grub it works fine, but after that no. When I first boot into Ubuntu (after grub) the keyboard is in a disabled state. The Lenovo has this bound for turning on your keyboard, but Ubuntu has the same keys bound for changing input.

It's not guaranteed but so far I think I've gotten it working more often than not by following these steps.įirst, change the keybinding in Ubuntu for Fn+Spacebar. I believe the problem lies in the touchscreen hardware layer of Lenovo and not intercepting control of keyboard input. I've had my Lenovo Ideapad for a few months and struggled with this with a new install of Ubuntu.