[ltp] external PS/2 mouse or trackpoint

[Per Kreuger]

Martin Fluch wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Per Kreuger wrote:
> 
> > Fabrice Bellet wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I noticed the following behaviour on a 770Z, running linux-2.3.20 kernel :
> > > when an external PS/2 mouse is plugged at boot time, there's no way then
> > > to get the trackpoint working after, neither with gpm nor with XFree86.
> > > I restarted gpm, I restarted XFree, I unplugged the external PS/2 mouse,
> > > it didn't work.
> > >
> > > If I plug the external mouse only AFTER the linux boot, then both mouses can be
> > > used at the same time. Did anyone experienced this same behaviour ?
> > >
> > > Fabrice
> >
> > Yes on TP 600E running RH6.1. Very annoying!
> 
> Perhaps this is relatet to some BIOS setings, which can be controled with
> tpctl or ntpctl (can be found at
> http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~thood/tpctlhome.htm and
> http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~mfluch/ntpctl.html)
> 
> The later has the menus:
> 
>     Int. pointing device (current)     enabled   (ctrable)
>     Ext. Pointing device (current)     disabled  (not ctrable)
>     Int. Pointing device (CMOS)        enabled   (ctrable)
>     Ext. pointing device (CMOS)        disabled  (not ctrable)
> 
> The posible values are [e]nable, [d]isable, [a]uto, and perhaps some are
> set to auto and therefor is the internal pointing device not recogniced
> when the mous is pluged in. Try to experiment with these values and see
> what happens (I by myself has no experience with that ... just a thought)
> 

It works! I set the internal mouse to enable (was auto). Thanks for the
tip.

	piak

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