<SOLVED>What is "peaq_wmi"?

[L7vanmatre]

Hey all. I've been using Linux Mint for a little while now, but I recently acquired an issue which much searching finally found a solution.

But the solution says to do the command

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rmmod peaq_wmi

, which the answerer said that if it fixes the solution, then they can blacklist it by typing

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echo "blacklist peaq_wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf

Researching what it is doesn't come up with anything that I understand. A driver of some sort, I think? Anyway, I wanted to know, what exactly is "peaq_wmi?"

Also, sorry if this post infringes on any rule I missed. I provided a bit of backstory to try to give some context to help any answer.

[catweazel]

I wanted to know, what exactly is "peaq_wmi?"

It's a driver for a PEAQ laptop's Dolby button.

[L7vanmatre]

Ah, alright. Thank you!

[catweazel]

Ah, alright. Thank you!

You're most welcome. Cheers.

[Termy]

You may find this alias I wrote to be quite useful. You can find it over here, but here it is:

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# Display a descriptive list of kernel modules.
if [ -x /sbin/lsmod -a -x /sbin/modinfo ]; then
	lsmodd(){
		while read -a X; do
			[ "${X[0]}" == "Module" ] && continue
			Y=`/sbin/modinfo -d "${X[0]}"`
			[ "$Y" ] && printf "%s - %s\n" "${X[0]}" "$Y"
		done <<< "$(/sbin/lsmod)"
	}
fi

To use it, copy and paste that code block into the bottom of your ~/.bashrc file, then restart bash or the terminal. Assuming you have lsmod and modinfo (you should by default), then it'll work. To use this function, just enter lsmodd; the extra 'd' is for detail, although, now that I think about it, it should probably be for 'describe'.