2009-07-06

Disable a touchpad in Opensolaris

I installed an Opensolaris2009.06 in a Compaq laptop. One annoying thing is that both touchpad and external USB mouse work. When I type, it is unavoidable that the touchpad will be touched and move the pointer around. Here is a solution to disable the touchpad.

~$ modinfo | grep mouse
102 fffffffff79ed628 be8 116 1 mouse8042 (PS/2 Mouse)
103 fffffffff80f7000 2320 - 1 vuid3ps2 (mouse events to vuid events)
127 fffffffff813b000 2c68 - 1 usbms (USB mouse streams)

There is no PS/2 mouse installed for sure. So I remove the PS/2 mouse driver.

~$ pfexec modunload -i 102

If you want to reload this driver, here is the command,

~$ pfexec modload /kernel/drv/amd64/mouse8042

But it didn't bring back my touchpad.


( Actually, all these information is referred/copied from another guy's blog. Appreciate!
http://blogs.sun.com/lubos/entry/disabling_touchpad_in_opensolaris )

Chang Vista GUI from English to Chinese

Tried to convert the GUI of Windoes Vista Home Premium from English to Chinese. Directly downloading the MUI from Windows failed multi times. Then I googled and found this usaful tool to do this job perfectly.

http://www.froggie.sk/usage.html

Follow this usage page, you will convert the GUI lanaguage of Windoes Vista easily.