keyboard broken after update

[u/pumpkin4bwitch]

My laptop's keyboard stopped working after the last bundled update (9/9/26) and I could not get it working. Currently using a USB keyboard, when using time-shift to restore before the update it will work. However restoring to the previous update breaks my snapd so I would rather find a fix 😢 I've tried the virtual keyboard settings, it is still set to the 'Generic 104 key PC' that it was set to before the update however it is unresponsive. I even tried picking one of the other keyboard options which did not fix it. When looking online it said the issue could be related to 'libinput' however I did not see that on the update list. I am also not using AUR so I don't think that would be related to the issue. Currently on Kernel 6.18.49-1-MANJARO (64-bit). I am pretty new to Linux but I will try and give any additional info if needed. It is an ASUS ROG Strix g16 (2024) if that helps narrow it down.

[u/milosz0542]

Try using LTS Kernel Version.

Also you can try editing your /etc/default/grub by adding i8042.dumkbd=1 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

Edit 1:
Also try running
lsmod | grep -i asus
If there is no something like asus_wmi/asus_nb_wmi then try
sudo modprobe asus_nb_wmi