Bug#648797: marked as done (xinput cannot disable built-in keyboards, only USB keyboards)
Your message dated Mon, 21 May 2012 13:47:31 +0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#648797: xinput cannot disable built-in keyboards, only USB keyboards
has caused the Debian Bug report #648797,
regarding xinput cannot disable built-in keyboards, only USB keyboards
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Package: xinput
Version: 1.5.3-1
File: /usr/bin/xinput
We find that there is no way to disable the keyboard.
E.g., if one has a defective builtin keyboard that types phantom characters and
wishes to turn it off in lieu of a USB keyboard.
One finds one can enable and disable USB keyboards fine, but not
built-in keyboards!
$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech Trackball id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Ever Electronics Corp. Usb KeyBoard id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Ever Electronics Corp. Usb KeyBoard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
$ xinput set-prop 10 "Device Enabled" 0 # Works fine, but:
$ xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0 # Works but sends infinite RET (0x0D) to
the terminal!
(One also notices that the latter does not leave any trace in Xorg.0.log.
The former causes two entries, as it comes back, but just disabled. And
no entries when reabling with "1".)
Anyway, one ends up using
# cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/66-jidanni.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Bypassed Busted Keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event0"
Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection
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OK Thanks seems fixed now.
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