Hello,
My keyboard and touchpad don't work on my laptop when booting to the desktop.
I'm booting from a USB drive made I made on another machine using CorePure64-7.2.
FWIW I have the same issue with Alpine Linux even with xf86-input-evdev.
Also, I am able to CTRL ALT F1 to tty from the desktop or CTRL ALT BACKSPACE to kill it, which is odd since no other keystrokes appear to work.
Perhaps the keyboard does work and just not the synaptics pad.
I installed usbutils, xf86-input-synaptics, and xf86-input-evdev.
Thanks,
Sharkey