Hello Gustin and others, On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 17:08 -0700, Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [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' > > > > > sudo rmmod psmouse > > > There may be a way of making a blacklist in HAL too... > > Simon > > > Of course it might just be easier to add psmouse to the > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file. > > Neither of these will effect the functioning of USB based devices. > I noticed that there is no blacklist.conf file but that there is an alsa-base-blacklist file and a blacklist file.
In the blacklist file there is a line as follows: blacklist usbmouse and I was wondering how come my usb optical mouse still works. I looked at the alsa-base-blacklist file and it looks as follows: # Uncomment these entries in order to blacklist unwanted modem drivers # blacklist snd-atixp-modem # blacklist snd-intel8x0m # blacklist snd-via82xx-modem So It looks like I do not want to touch alsa-base-blacklist file. I would like to see comments and evaluations of my observations before I add blacklist psmouse to the blacklist file. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuVkWkACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMmUgCggogFZFBDCu4HcJHy2D2h0nVr > 164AniW7SMeTHl00axklLRspszh8Jdaz > =kTLT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ Comments and help appreciated in advance 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
