Disabling keyboard keys in FC6

Reverse Logic · #1 18th February 2007, 07:31 PM

I need to disable the sleep mode key on my keyboard. The desk I have is poorly set up (hey, it was $15) and presses the sleep button accidentally all the time, shutting down my computer in the middle of whatever I'm doing. I've tried to remap it, but it shuts down the computer before I can save my settings. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Brian1 · #2 18th February 2007, 08:09 PM

It would have to do wih ACPI. If not needing any ACPI then you can issue the command as root ' /sbin/service acpid stop '
Now hit the sleep key to see if it sleeps.

If that does the trick you can do a few things.
Leave it off by issuing the command ' /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 acpid off '
Or goto /etc/acpi/events and rename sleep to sleep_backup or move it to say to /etc ' mv /etc/acpi/events/sleep /etc '
A few other ways but more complex.

Lets see if that stops it from happening first.

Brian