Even going back and carefully booting 9.04 with the secret
mouse/device=/dev/ttyS0 boot parameters did no good. Trying to
navigate 9.04 desktop using kbd with no mouse was cute for a couple
minutes, got frustrating fast -- did not find any way to activate serial
mouse.
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Serial mouse/mice not
Going on five years on this serial mouse bug, apparently little
progress... today I was testing a PCChips M748LMRT mainboard, with AT
keyboard, serial mouse, no PS/2 or USB. 384MB. Puppy Linux booted
fine, with simple manual choice of serial mouse. The latest Ubuntu 9.04
was useless. Booted
