Serial Mouse

[Hodgins Family]

Good afternoon, Mark!

> the xorg.conf file. I was told I am not the owner and I could not edit, 
> as the file is read only. I am new to Linux but all the other Linux's I 
> tried had no problems with serial mouse. Can you tell me how to be owner 
> so I can edit xorg.conf?

To edit the xorg.conf file from the console do a Ctrl-Alt-F1, then a 
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". Give your user password when asked 
(not the root password). You will be presented with a series of pages 
that deal with certain aspects of getting the Xserver file set up. Move 
through these pages (you don't need the mouse, the Tab key works) until 
you reach a page that deals with rodentia. Specify that yours whould be 
on ttyS0 (if you are are COM1). Continue going through the pages until 
you are dumped back to the command line.

Now at this point, I "think" doing a Ctrl-Alt-F7 should take you into 
your GUI with your mouse working, but I could be wrong, so I suggest 
that from the console just type "sudo shutdown -r now" to reboot. If you 
have your moouse on ttys0 (as above) things should be ok.

HTH

Rob