[oclug] Inspiron 8200 USB mouse does not work

[Dan Cardamore]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 03:55:44PM -0400, Brian Barber wrote:
> On my Inspiron 7000, there is a configuration setting in the BIOS that 
> disables the touchpad when there is an external mouse plugged in on 
> start up.  If you set it up like this, you either have to live with no 
> scrolling when a scroll mouse is plugged in or have to deal with really 
> wonky pointer activity when using the touch pad.
> 
> With your solution, I can now use both.  Thanks in return.

Cool.  Glad it helped.  This solution allows you to plug in the mouse
while X is running too I think.

> 
> BTW, have you set up your laptop to use the external monitor?  I 
> plugged my laptop into a projector and it looked terrible.  Display 
> information for the projector was not avilable.

I tried a long time ago with a different install.  You have to get the
refresh rates bang otherwise it will look aweful.  My monitor worked
fine.

Dan
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