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Abhijit Navale
Asked: 2011-01-10 09:51:50 +0800 CST

How to disable laptop internal keyboard [duplicate]

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I am using external usb keyboard. I want to disable laptop's internal keyboard using software.

I know that i can just remove the internal keyboards wire and disconnect it physically, but i wanted to disable it using software so that later I can enable it by just executing a command in terminal easily. I am talking about disabling the keyboard and NOT the keyboard layout.

I am having Hp-Compaq Presario A965 TU Laptop Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo(Freq. 2 GHz). I am using 64 bit Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

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  1. Best Answer

    You can disable the keyboard via boot options:

    1. Open /boot/grub/grub.cfg as sudo with your favourite text editor.
    2. Add i8042.nokbd, preferably to the end of the file, and save.

    Source: Ubuntu Forums Thread

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