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Is there a way to temporarily disable the built-in keyboard on a 500+? (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/raspberry_pi@programming.dev
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The built-in keyboard on my Pi 500 is acting up and, while I found a way online to fix it that looks simple enough, it'll be a few days before I have a chance to do it. In the meantime I've got another keyboard plugged into a USB port as a substitute.

The trouble is that after a couple hours the built-in keyboard starts repeatedly spamming the letter N on its own and I have to reboot to make it stop. Is there any way to tell the Pi to ignore its own keyboard inputs and only listen to the other keyboard for now, then reverse that when I get the main keyboard straightened out again?

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You can use xinput to temporarily disable a keyboard. Run xinput list to get its ID, then run xinput float ID to disable it.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It may be unrelated but I had this happen on my mechanical keyboard.

    You can remove key cap, hold keyboard upside down and keep hitting the letter, and try some compressed air.

    If there was dust or something inside it dislodged it, and keyboard was good after

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-keyboard-config looks promising.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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