Serial COM mouse.

[Colin McDermott]

I will test this out on the Regular Ubuntu. But it did work in Breezy.

Colin

Matías Szeftel wrote:
> Yes, but i'm talking about the live/desktop Xubuntu Flight 7, when XFCE4
> starts, my mouse is locked. I know how to get it working, but i think it
> would a very bad impression for people new to linux. Also, it's a LIVE
> cd now, so it's supossed to work right out of the box and the main
> installation procedure.
>
> Well, just my thought.
>
> Regards, Matías.
>
> PS: I haven't test this with ubuntu or kubuntu (because is to heavy for
> my old machine), but maybe they have this problem too. But since Ubuntu
> and Kubuntu won't usually be installed on old hardware with serial
> mouse, it's not serious.
>
> Colin McDermott escribió:
>   
>> I had thought that Ubuntu had resolved this issue with a particular
>> package that would sniff out the serial mouse automatically?
>>
>> It may not have been in the Ubuntu Base.
>>
>> Check up on it because it was in the ubuntu digest (somewhere). it was
>> possibly in a Bug fix as well
>>
>> Naturally you can sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to get the mouse
>> back .
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> Matías Szeftel wrote:
>>     
>>> I have a Celeron 300Mhz and a serial mouse that wasn t detected.
>>> Shouldn't I have the option to chose what kind of mouse I'm using???
>>> serial mouse are very common in old hardware, and this distribution
>>> amis partly at that.
>>>
>>> Thanx, Matías
>>>
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