On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:24:39PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:09:31AM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > [...] > | i want to DISABLE the touchpad when the usb mouse is plugged in. > > Oh. I don't know how to do that as I've never tried (and never wanted > to). I think some BIOSes support that (at least for PS/2 mice). > Sorry I can't help with this. >
If you are using the touchpad driver in xfree86-driver-synaptics you can use the synclient program to disable and enable the touchpad: $ synclient TouchPadOff=[0|1] Work this into a hotplug script and you should be good to go. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
