Alternate workaround/solution

[werickson24]

As far as I can tell this module is not being maintained, and no longer works as I encountered the same build errors as other users here did. But this issue is EXTREMELY annoying so I'm just going to leave this alternate solution I dug up for anyone else. This worked (at least thus far) for me on openSUSE tumbleweed, and seems to have worked for people on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

As detailed in this post: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1366407/keyboard-does-not-work-for-first-few-seconds
The workaround appears to be to add i8042.nopnp=1 and i8042.dumbkbd=1 to your grub config at /etc/default/grub by appending them to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=

e.g.:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash=silent resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/[long number] quiet security=apparmor"
becomes
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash=silent resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/[long number] quiet security=apparmor i8042.nopnp=1 i8042.dumbkbd=1"

Save and regen the grub config via sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and restart and you should be good to go.

According to this kernel doc https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.6/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html?highlight=i8042
i8042.dumbkbd = Pretend that controller can only read data from keyboard and cannot control its state (Don't attempt to blink the leds).
i8042.nopnp = [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX controllers.

Hope this can help a couple people fix this annoyance.