Disabling the knob

[Jan Newmarch]

My Toshiba laptop has a BIOS setting that allows me enable both
external mouse and knob, or disable the knob in the presence of
an external mouse. Not quite what you are after, but have you
looked at your BIOS settings?

Jan
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> You know how laptops have that little knob for the mouse in the center of
> the keyboard. Does anyone know if it's possible to disable it? Can the
> kernel/X server actually distinguish between the knob and the touchpad?
>
> I keep bumping it while typing. I found plenty of references to disabling
> the touch on the touchpad, but that's not what I want.
>
> It's a Dell if it matters. Any ideas?
>

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