Hello Simon, On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 11:07 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > How does one disable the built in mouse pad so that I use only the > > optical mouse and do not have to worry about accidentally touching the > > mouse pad? > > You can remove 'HAL' devices with the command: > hal-device -r <udi> > > You can find the <udi> by just using 'hal-device' and parsing the output, > the <udi> will look something like: > '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_logicaldev_input_2' > ____________________________________________________________________________
I did a hal-device command and got a few pages of output. I remember hearing the term "parsing" before but I have forgotten the command to do it. using the command hal-device -r <di> may be doubly dangerous because it may remove all hal devices and with -r it will do it recursively . So I presume that what you mean by the command hal-device -r <udi> is to replace "hal-dev" with the particular name of my hal-dev, in your case, logicaldev_input_2. So until I can learn how to parse the output of the hal-device command I will wait for more guidance before using an unknown command in possibly a too general way and causing myself unnecessary grief. Thanks for your help so far, Michael > > There may be a way of making a blacklist in HAL too... > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ I might be interested in that option too. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
