After some kind of chemicals had spilled over my laptop's keyboard, it had stopped working. And after few weeks of the incident, it started to show some ridiculous behaviour since yesterday. OMG !! I was nearly insane, not taking it to repair.
When something like cryptic - to disable the laptop's keyboard, stroke in my mind, then I searched how to disable the keyboard in linux.
I read around 25 articles and forum posts to disable the keyboard input. And there wasn't a proper post saying some simple steps to do that. "How could it be so difficult. ".
I tried
Yes it worked, in just after 5 minutes of workout. Major of time was consumed in identifying the actual device id, which my laptop's built-in keyboard belonged to.
When something like cryptic - to disable the laptop's keyboard, stroke in my mind, then I searched how to disable the keyboard in linux.
I read around 25 articles and forum posts to disable the keyboard input. And there wasn't a proper post saying some simple steps to do that. "How could it be so difficult. ".
I tried
- modprobe
- modprobe.d/blacklist...
- /sys/devices/...
- xkb
- etc etc. ... (a lot, i don't even remember now)
And finally found this saviour how to.
http://formyhelp.blogspot.com/2011/06/disabling-enabling-keyboard-and-mouse.html
http://formyhelp.blogspot.com/2011/06/disabling-enabling-keyboard-and-mouse.html
Yes it worked, in just after 5 minutes of workout. Major of time was consumed in identifying the actual device id, which my laptop's built-in keyboard belonged to.
Its was simple as 1, 2, 3 ...
Finally, I am acknowledging the article author with one more link-to (trackback) credit :)
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