Howdy!
I recently plugged an optical Microsoft USB Intellimouse into my Redhat 8.0 laptop and it works like a charm right out of the gate. Kudzu detected it as well at the next boot and I configured it and again it worked great. Then, I unplugged the mouse while the laptop was down, booted it back up, and Kudzu informed me that I could remove the configuration for the USB Mouse, ignore the fact that it was missing, and something else that I don't recall offhand. In my haste, I told it to save the settings and ignore the fact that it wasn't there. Mistake.
The touch pad that normally worked now no longer does. I didn't test the touchpad functionality while the USB Mouse wsa in so I'm not sure at what point it became disabled. I did an ls -l /dev/mouse and noticed that it was linked to input/mouse. I looked around to see if I could find a way to reactivate the touchpad and uninstall the USB mouse but am probably missing something. I decided to remove /dev/mouse, reboot, and go into text mode.
I relink'd /dev/mouse with
ln psaux /dev/mouse
The touchpad began working again but in a strange way. It jumped around a lot and never settled down the way I'd like. My suspicion is that I've linked it to the wrong device. I ran redhat-config-mouse and set it back to the Intellimouse so I am back at square one with the touchpad disabled.
Any thoughts on how to uninstall a USB Mouse once Kudzu has set it up and it has been told to ignore it when it detects that it's not there rather than prompt to uninstall it?
Also, what should I link /dev/mouse to for a standard touchpad?
Thanks!
Brian Lucas, MCSE, OCP
