Hello antiXers!!

[Member rcva]

Greetings all. Long time sysadmin dude here, but new to the antiX ecosystem. Learning and experimenting with Linux distros has been a passion of mine for years, especially USB based ones. Recently, I downloaded antiX for the first time. Got it installed easily and running as a Virtual Box vm on a 2015 MacBook.

However, I’m having a problem using the USB Live feature. I can boot into the Live and it loads without error. I can get to the desktop manager. The problem is I have no touchpad or keyboard functionality whatsoever. If you’re seen this behavior I’d like to know how you resolved it. Thanks.

What I’m running-
-MacBook 2015, Core M, runs solid, no hw or os errors
-High Sierra 10.13.6
-antiX-21_x64-full.iso
-Used balenaEtcher and flashed it to two different usb sticks. Same results with both, Live loads but no touchpad or keyboard functionality.

What I’ve done so far-
-Experimented with numerous MacOS bootup switches, hoping to change BIOS or UEFI touchpad and keyboard settings. Can’t find any that address my problem.
-Tried a couple different kernel switches during the install, such as disable ACPI, and I’ve chosen different keyboards, etc.
-Searched the forums
-Searched the wikis

What I’ll try next-
A different iso.
Continue searching the forums & wikis.
Kernel options.
Edit startup scripts.

[Anonymous]

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searchbox on forum mainpage, query “macbook” (noquotes) found

http://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/hash-key-on-a-macbook-uk-keyboard/#post-68080

Switching keyboard models to “MacBook/MacBook Pro (intl.)” solved the problem. Many thanks ModdIt and watsoccurring.

I had previously missed this keyboard model in the keyboard selector app because the keyboard list has an irregular and somewhat random sorted order.

^—– may not be relevant to your exact problem, but reading that topic might be helpful

here’s a debian wiki page you may have missed (it mentions macbook keyboard):
wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/MacBookPro/7-1

Per the sticky topic in “New Users” section (also sticky in the “Welcome to antiX” section),
it will probably be useful for you to post the output of inxi

How to search for a solution when you have an antiX problem

When you first get here, we know you are confused and like lost in the woods a bit. To help us help you.
Whenever you 1st join the forums, give us these readouts from a terminal.
Just copy and paste then highlight the text on the page and click on code button.

These readouts will help us to help you.

inxi -zv7

But you can also use

inxi -Fxz

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Brian Masinick. Reason: From skidoo

[Member rcva]

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Thanks Skidoo for the help. I’ll work through your suggestions and then post results.

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