Douglas Royds 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.
One option might be to disable the harddrake service (or what ever it's called) thats what checks for hardware changes at start up. Mandrake Control Centre > System > Services. Chad
