hey all, so this is a rather odd situation. a little background:
about 8 months ago, some unknown party spilled some kind of liquid on my laptop keyboard. the liquid didn't make it any deeper than the contact sheet that is under the keys, so all the guts of the system were ok. however, the system refused to boot up because of the keyboard, so i took the entire thing apart and spent about 2 days with a box of qtips and a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and got the machine booting up, with the only hitch being that the 'a' and 's' keys were broken. i found the directory that had all the keymaps for x11 (/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/), and made my own custom setup that mapped left shift to 's' and caps lock to 'a'. all was fine until about a week and a half ago, when... out of the blue, the bios started complaining about a 'stuck key' error at boot time (the key being 'a'), and periodically when i hit certain other keys i get showered with 'a' and 'A's. i've taken out the original entries for 'a' from the keymap file, but it doesn't help, and the 'a's are still a-comin'. so, what i'm wondering is: is there any way to completely turn off/No-op the key in question, so that X just won't pay any attention to it at all? any help would be greatly appreciated --sean
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