Ah, yes... Compaq.... The BIOS setup tools are in a "hidden partition" on the hard drive (and I think the actual BIOS may be loaded from there as well on some models)... Didn't think the laptops went this way, but it doesn't surprise me...
Jon => Thanks for this - I had put the problem aside. The F10 key, => which is supposed to bring up the bios during boot, doesn't => work. According to some stuff on the Compaq (now HP) site, => that is because I don't have the setup program installed. Of => course, since I wiped everything to put on Linux. => => Both the external mouse and the touchpad move the pointer. I => have commented out the section in XF86config for the second => mouse, but both devices still work. Apart from opening it up and physically disconnecting the touchpad, a rather permenant solution, I guess have a look at the Compaq/HP website to see if there's a bootable "setup disk" that you could use. I know on the servers I used to manage we used SmartStart to configure them - not perfect, but pretty useful - maybe that would work on a notebook ??? Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
