On July 18, 2004 12:00, Dave Bourassa wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Dave Bourassa: > >>I run Suse 9.0, currently, on my laptop. It's a Panasonic CF-71 > >>toughbook. Basically a Pentium II, 366mhz, with 192mb of RAM. I dual > >>boot Suse and win98se. > >> > >>In my Suse boot up, I've set it up to use an external mouse. I'd like > >>to be able to use either and external mouse and/or the built in glide > >>pad pointer device. Currently, if I forget or don't plug in the > >>external mouse, when Suse boots up I have no mouse available. The only > > > > If your external mouse is USB, this can be done. If it's PS/2, don't > > do it! The touchpad is PS/2 also, and trying to take signals from two > > PS/2 devices at the same time confuses the living daylights out of > > your BIOS. > > > > If the external is USB, google (groups.google.com) for "corepointer". > > I have a usb port, so I can use a usb mouse, no problem. Thanx for the > tip. I'll play with it a bit more.
Just on a side-note ps/2 plugs are turned off after finding no device in them at boot-time, and as far as i know (afaik), there is no way you can turn them back. I could be wrong here, but i did say afaik :-) Cheers Szemir _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
