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.



My laptop, from around the same period I'm guessing (98/99) doesn't have USB ports. But, then again, mine has 32MB of RAM too. Guess Apple was a bit*behind* at that point.

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".






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