[olpc-help] disable built-in keyboard?

[Steve Holton]

Then there's always "take it apart and disconnect the keyboard..."


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Ixo X oxI <ixo at myna.ws> wrote:
> FYI,
>    There's a great overview of various ways of 're-defining' a stuck key.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Stuck_keys
>
> If your answer doesn't lie in there, let me know,
>  Thanks, -Ixo
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
> > this has come up a couple of times on the G1G1 user forums, and
> > it feels like there should be a simple solution, and i'm hoping
> > someone here will have an idea.
> >
> > when laptops suffer the stuck-key keyboard problem, it not only
> > renders the builtin keyboard useless, but also an external
> > keyboard, due to the stuck control or alt key.
> >
> > might it be possible to disable the builtin keyboard either by
> > manipulating a node under /sys/class/input/input3/..., or by editing
> > xorg.conf?  there's clearly a chicken/egg problem here, since the
> > user might not even be able to type enough to fix the problem.
> > but it might be worth a try.
> >
> > paul
> > =---------------------
> >  paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 34.0
> degrees)
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