From: David W. Taylor (detayls_at_sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Sep 27 1998 - 22:31:26 EDT
Just plug a PS/2 mouse in and reboot. There may be a switch in the mouse
control panel somewhere. I forget. If you have booted with no mouse
connected, it will not see it until you reboot.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Floyd <rick_at_cs.duke.edu>
To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 12:45 PM
Subject: 770ED: Using Trackpoint auto-disable with external mouse?
>I'd like to use an external mouse (Kensington Expert Mouse) on a
>Thinkpad 770ED running various Evil Empire operating systems (95,
>NT). When I tried this under 95 OSR2, just plugging the mouse into
>the external PS/2 port didn't work, with either the Trackpoint or
>Kensington drivers. The external mouse was ignored. There's an
>auto-disable mode for the Trackpoint that I was hoping would allow me
>to switch automatically, but it caused sporadic behavior with both
>drivers. More often that not, neither mouse worked after a resume.
>About the only thing I've found that does seem to work is to totally
>disable the Trackpoint when I want to use the external mouse, to
>reboot, and to use the Kensington drivers.
>
>This is all pretty painful when I'm moving around a lot and can only
>sometimes use the external mouse. Has someone gotten this to work in
>a less awkward fashion? What's a little amazing to me is that this
>did all work on my 765, with no intervention at all required. So much
>for progress...
>
> rick
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