[svlug] Disabling laptop mouse

[Bevan Schroeder]

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Wayne Earl wrote:

> Hey guys. Need some help with this one..I've a TI TravelMate 4000M that
> I've just installed red hat on. Works great, X configs...only thing is,
> I broke the little eraser-looking mouse thing a few years ago.
> Installation detects this mouse, and refuses to see one pluged into the

Installation of what?  The X server?

> serial or ps/2 port. Wanted to try and disable it through the BIOS, but
> this is not an option. Is there some way I can disable the built-in
> mouse in X-windows (XFree86, stock RH5.0), and attach a working one?

Sounds like you're going to have to go lower-level than you have been...
In your /etc/XF86Config is a line of the form
    Device      "/dev/mouse"

You can edit this, or (since it's a symlink anyway), you can
cd /dev
rm mouse
ln -s psaux mouse	# for ps/2
  - or -
ln -s cua0 mouse	# for serial (unless it's cua1, I don't know anymore)

If it's a ps/2 mouse, you need to make sure you have kernel support for it.
I've never used linux on a laptop, so I might be missing something
obvious, but hopefully at least this will give you some more clues on
where to look...

-bevan


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