Mouse swapping on a laptop

Dan Coutu coutu at snowy-owl.com
Fri Aug 1 11:00:09 EDT 2003


My laptop has a touchpad mouse built-in and that works fine with my
mouse setting as a generic 2-button ps/2 mouse. I have a Logitech
wireless wheel mouse that I attach to it when working with it on the
desktop. I do use the touchpad when take the computer elsewhere, no
point in dragging around a load of hardware.

What I'm trying to determine is whether or not there's a way to enable
use of the wheel on the cordless mouse without making a mess of the
mouse behavior when it is not plugged in. I tried to set the mouse type
to generic wheel mouse and the scroll wheel works like a charm. The
problem is that when I then unplug it and try to use the touchpad (after
rebooting) the mouse movement goes  haywire. Sometimes it tracks okay
and sometimes the pointer slams to the lower left corner of the screen
and won't come out to play. Urk!

I figured maybe disabling GSM would help but it didn't. Do I have to
resort to not being able to use the wheel at all unless I reconfigure
the mouse every time the system boots with/without the external mouse?

Thanks for any bright ideas that may pop up.

-- 

Dan Coutu
Managing Director
Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC
http://www.snowy-owl.com/





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