keyboard woes with an encrypted disk

During today’s installfest we had a system with keyboard issues. The specific details were this: An ASUS laptop E200H, ubuntu 17.04 with gnome, and an encrypted hard drive. The system booted up to the screen where it requests the disk encryption password. At this point in time, the system did not allow the use of the laptop’s keyboard. It did however recognize an external USB keyboard.
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