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My system is Lenovo Idea-pad Notebook running Windows 7 Ultimate. I want to switch over to Ubuntu 14.10 and tried it with Ubuntu LiveCD. On the Try Ubuntu mode the keyboard is not working. What can I do?

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  • What kind of keyboard is it? Internal, USB, or PS/2? For USB we need the output of lsusb to determine the responsible device driver.
    – David Foerster
    Mar 7, 2015 at 16:02
  • Laptop keyboard. S10-3C.
    – qedk
    Mar 8, 2015 at 16:41
  • This is an old, unfixed kernel bug (Launchpad bug #677633). There's a workaround in comment #111.
    – David Foerster
    Mar 8, 2015 at 16:54
  • The workaround is for disabling your laptop keyboard. And now my problem's changed, I have a clean, nothing HDD and I'm trying to install Ubuntu onto it but all I get is a blinking cursor after I select "Install Ubuntu" in the installer. I've tried nomodeset and others but it just doesn't work.
    – qedk
    Mar 8, 2015 at 17:06
  • If your question is now obsolete, please delete it. Find a question that suits your current situation or open a new question for it.
    – David Foerster
    Mar 8, 2015 at 21:18

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According to my research this issue is resolved through a BIOS upgrade (direct link to file). Unfortunately many people seem to have issues to run this update even with the recommended Windows 7, but this can be resolved by placing an older AMI flashing driver amifldrv32.sys in the same folder (source). I found the whole package on a Russian Linux enthusiast page: https://syslinux.ru/sites/default/files/Lenovo_BIOS_Update.zip

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  • Flashing of American Megatrend BIOSes can only be done with an OS installed. I have an empty HDD onto which I cannot install Ubuntu.
    – qedk
    Mar 9, 2015 at 11:09
  • You need to complain to the manufacturer, that they only support Windows and don't even try to provide alternatives. You may be able to extract the BIOS image from the executable archive and flash it with a DOS program running inside FreeDOS. google.com/search?q=lenovo+ideapad+flash+bios+dos
    – David Foerster
    Mar 9, 2015 at 11:17
  • Good answer! Nothing that I can add to... (and an upvote!)
    – Fabby
    Mar 11, 2015 at 17:50

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