I believe kudzu is the program in Mandrake that does the configuring of hardware. I don't know how to stop it from trying to unconfigure the mouse but you can change the timeout time.
"man kudzu" should help -Warren Stuart On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:34:43 +1200, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Mandrake 9.2 install successfully runs both my touchpad and a USB > mouse at the same time. During operation, I can unplug the USB mouse, > and the system carries on without complaint, using the touchpad. When I > plug it in again, it works again. So far so good. > > If I start up without the USB mouse plugged in, the system says "Argh! > No USB mouse. Time to reconfigure!" or some such drama, and I have to > tab through to the Cancel option (or wait a further 25 seconds for it to > time out). > > All I want to do is tell the system that if the USB mouse isn't present > when I boot up, don't worry about it - just carry on silently. No need > to reconfigure. The system is already doing this for the 1394 PCMCIA > card - if it isn't in, an error is displayed, but the boot-up continues > unabated. > > I've trawled the net without success on this one. > > Any suggestions? > Douglas. > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= > >
