[Sugar-devel] Disable the XO keyboard

[Gonzalo Odiard]

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?

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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