Disable laptop "joystick" mouse

[Bill Marcum]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:43:45 +0200, Bjørn Ingmar Berg 
  <bjorn.ingmar.berg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On an oldish laptop there's something wrong with the "joystick"
> hardware.  The mouse pointer is skipping and jumping about on it's
> own.  This makes the laptop rather less useable, so it would be good
> to stop it.
>
> I would like to disable the "joystick" mouse completely and just use a
> USB mouse instead.  But the BIOS of the laptop has no option to
> disable it.  I tried to remove all the pointer stuff in the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file except the USB entry, but that was a huge
> failure and just made X unstartable.
>
> I guess there probably is some way to hack this.  Any advice, good people?
>
Try 'Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"' (or mouse0) in 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.  You could also try different protocols (ps2 or 
imps2).


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