Re: PS/2 mouse plugged in after boot

Vagn Scott (vagn@idt.net)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 14:05:42 -0400

Russell Coker wrote:
>
> I've found that if I boot a machine without a PS/2 mouse plugged in then I
> can't get the mouse to be recognised unless I reboot. This used to not be a
> problem (when psaux was a module).
> Is there some way now of recognising a mouse after boot?

On my laptop, at least, all I have to do to switch from the little
built-in pointer dingus to the ps/2 mouse is plug in the mouse
and then switch out of X to a vt, and back to X again.

HTH,

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