Disable laptop "joystick" mouse

[Bjørn Ingmar Berg]

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?


Regards,
Bjørn Ingmar Berg

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