My ASUS ROG Falchion Mechanical Keyboard Keeps Shutting Down My Linux Computer

I recently purchased a great keyboard for my Linux systems. It is a wireless mechanical keyboard. It is designed with gaming in mind, though I don’t intend to use it for that purpose.

It has one glitch,however. Its power saving feature causes the keyboard to power off/restart/or hibernate your whole system after 2 minutes is up. I did some Internet searching, and this workaround to disable the power function worked for me on x11.

1. You need to edit the following file:

sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

2. You’ll need to append the following lines to the end of the file:

Section "InputClass"
     Identifier "disable asus falchioh sys control"
     MatchIsKeyboard "on"
     MatchProduct "ASUSTeK ROG FALCHION System Control"
     Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

3. Save it and reboot. That should fix the issue for Xorg.

For Wayland, you'll need to do the following:

1. You'll need to create the following file in its directory:

sudo nano /etc/udev/hwdb.d/99-asus-falchion.hwdb

2. Copy and paste the following into that file: 

evdev:input:b*v0B05p193Ee0111*
  KEYBOARD_KEY_10081=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_10082=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70070=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70071=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70072=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70073=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70074=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70075=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70076=reserved
  KEYBOARD_KEY_70077=reserved

3.After saving the file, run the following command:

sudo systemd-hwdb update

Then reboot into your Wayland session and you should be good to go!