Fedora 16 wakes on mouse - how to prevent this?

Question

I have a desktop computer with PS/2 (!) keyboard and mouse, running Fedora 16, just recently installed. It goes to sleep OK, but moving the mouse wakes it up. I'd like moving the mouse not to wake it up--typing on the keyboard would be fine.

I found an article online ( http://blob.inf.ed.ac.uk/chris/2011/03/04/linux-sleep-how-to-wake-with-a-key-press-or-mouse-click/ ) that told me to look in /proc/acpi/wakeup, so I did:

Device  S-state   Status   Sysfs node
PS2K      S3    *enabled   pnp:00:03
PS2M      S3    *disabled  pnp:00:04
BR20      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:1e.0
EUSB      S3    *enabled   pci:0000:00:1d.0
USBE      S3    *enabled   pci:0000:00:1a.0
PEX0      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.0
PEX1      S4    *disabled  
PEX2      S4    *disabled  
PEX3      S4    *disabled  
PEX4      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.4
PEX5      S4    *disabled  
PEX6      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.6
PEX7      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:1c.7
GBE       S4    *enabled   pci:0000:00:19.0
P0P1      S4    *disabled  
P0P2      S4    *disabled  
P0P3      S4    *disabled  
P0P4      S4    *disabled  
GBE1      S4    *disabled  
PWRB      S3    *enabled   

To me, it looks like the mouse (PS2M I assume) should not wake up the computer. Yet it does.

Answer 1

Normally, you can also set this in the BIOS which I think is alot easier than hacking your fedora.