[Sugar-devel] Disable the XO keyboard

[Paul Fox]

gonzalo wrote:
 > Looking for other alternatives, can anybody confirm if the keyboard in the
 > XO-1.5 and in the XO-1 are the same or compatible?

compatible.

some are the same, but all are compatible.  for 1.75, it's a little
more complicated -- i'm not sure whether the old XO-1 ALPS touchpad is
supported in 1.75 firmware.  but that's the only incompatibility i
know of.

paul

 > 
 > Gonzalo
 > 
 > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > walter wrote:
 > >  > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez
 > >  > <aguz at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
 > >  > > Hello,
 > >  > > I've a XO with a broken keyboard (writes: ]]]]] steadily)
 > >  > > I have to wait a week to send to fix, and I thought I could connect an
 > >  > > external
 > >  > > keyboard so I have to disable the internal keyboard...
 > >  > >
 > >  > > ¿Somebody can help me to disable the XO keyboard?
 > >  >
 > >  > You don't need to disable the XO keyboard in order to use an external
 > >  > keyboard, but if the key is stuck, then you will probably have to
 > >  > disconnect the ribbon cable, which will also disable the touch pad. Do
 > >  > you have a USB mouse?
 > >
 > >
 > > hmm.  normally i would say to do this, to disable the keyboard:
 > >    # cd /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0
 > >    # echo -n manual > bind_mode
 > >    # echo -n none > drvctl
 > >
 > > but i think walter is right -- if there's a stuck key, you won't
 > > be able to run those commands.   unless you can ssh to the machine,
 > > of course.  :-)
 > >
 > > paul
 > >
 > >  >
 > >  > -walter
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Thanks!
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Sorry, my English isn't good...
 > >  > >
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