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I want to disable the keyboard on my laptop. Most of the keys don't work, and more troublingly, some of them do other than they're supposed to when pressed. (I think I shorted something when I tried to glue it back into place... feel free to mock) I don't really care if the touchpad gets disabled, but I want to make sure the power button still works (some things I read seemed to lump that with the keyboard, and I'm wary of messing around too much when I'm reliant on a virtual keyboard).
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Just today a similar question was asked: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=136527
I'm not sure, but try editing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf file to match something like this (and then restart X):
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Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "KeyboardOff" "1"
EndSection
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The power button and everything else will work up until you start X. If you really REALLY wanna keep *just* the power button working, you could probably nuke the rest of the keys from your default keyboard layout (obviously back it up first) from "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/", but I wouldn't recommend it... Again, I'm not sure, but it may affect the virtual keyboard too.
Just to be safe, disable any login managers first and boot only into runlevel 3 (for now), where you have to manually type "startx". Because in case something goes south and you can't log in, you'll probably have to use an external keyboard or a LiveCD... Tread lightly.
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Thank you DSpider. I'm not sure, but it seems like that might mess up an external keyboard as well (?) which I would want to have working.
I'm going to wait for my external keyboard to arrive in the mail before I try this, in the mean time more ideas are welcome.
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