I've installed Linux Mint 18.1 64-Bit to get away from Windows, however I'm having a few issues. I selected to encrypt my hard drive at the installation of Linux Mint, when it installs and shows the screen where you enter your password there is no input from the keyboard...I managed to gain access by setting no splash in the grub file at /etc/default/grub to use shell access to enter the password, not very ideal but it is the only way for me to gain access after hard rebooting to use recovery mode.So I thought why not update the kernel and see if that works. I tried 4.4 and no luck, I tried 4.8 and no luck and I tried 4.10 and no luck.So after getting to 4.10 on the kernel I added hid-generic to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and then updated initramfs and still no luck entering my password at the splash screen.Also on Mint on all the kernels I tried restarting does not work either, i choose to restart my PC, all I get after Mint has gone is a black screen and my keyboard lights flash 2 times before the PC just sits there with a black screen.This is like very basic stuff that should be working, I love Linux and moving from Windows is what I've always wanted to do but this basic functionality is such a deal breaker for me.Is there anything I can do or at least explain why everything mentioned does not work correctly?My hardware:Linux Mint 18.1Kernel: 4.10.0-20CPU Intel i7-6700KRAM: 32 GB DDR4Boot Drive NVME M.2 512GB SamsungGPU: Nvidia 1080 with their drivers installedLatest updates from the Mint update manager
Linux Mint 18.1 Keyboard not working at cryptsetup before boot
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