First I am a user that helps other users, I am not a developer. Why that matters? If I can’t help find a solution there are people around that know more or different things than I do.
It’s a start. The problem you describe could be a missing kernel module needed for your hardware. So we would want to first try a newer kernel and see if we get lucky and that works. Or maybe switching the Graphics Platform from X11 to Wayland. The 24.12 iso is from last December so rather old.
So several suggestions.
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With your current iso or one of the new ones at the Grub Menu there is a line for ‘Keyboard Layouts’. You could try setting that to US English or other as appropriate. Does not seem like it should be necessary but we might get lucky.
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Try a newer iso which would have a newer kernel:
- Try using Wayland instead of X11:
Those isos may have a few problems noted here but all have workarounds as noted. If one of them boots to a black screen try switching what we call the tty using Ctrl>Alt>Fx keys. Graphical display is usually at Ctrl>Alt>F1 or Ctrl>Alt>F2. Yes the issues with these isos have been reported to developers and they should get fixed soonish. We are a small group so we do sometimes need a bit of time to get things done.