[luau] Mouse and touchpad on laptop

Eric Hattemer hattenator at imapmail.org
Fri Jul 5 00:40:01 PDT 2002


well, asside from rebooting, you could probably open a terminal, go into
init 3 (as root), run kudzu, then run init 5 again.  This should only take a
minute, and hopefully should configure the mouse for use in X.  You might be
able to set up two pointers in X, but I have no idea of how.

-Eric Hattemer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J Nishimura" <djnishim at hawaii.edu>
To: "LUAU" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 11:31 PM
Subject: [luau] Mouse and touchpad on laptop


> I'm running Redhat 7.3 on my dell 4100 laptop.  The problem is when I use
> a ps/2 mouse, I don't have any trouble switching between the touchpad and
> mouse.  However, when I use a USB mouse, my touchpad is rendered useless.
> Can anyone help me out?  The reason I ask is that I use my laptop at work,
> and I want to be able to unplug at anytime without having to reboot and
> still have the touchpad functional.  Thanks in advance.
>
> -dan
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