> Actually, I think I know ONE problem right off of the bat... how do you
> set your mouse? I have a feeling my Mouse is incorrectly set. On the
> motherboard, it's plugged into "COM1". That means its a Serial Mouse?
> (I have an authentic Microsoft Mouse. Don't you all scream at me, now,
> this thing's from the late 1980's and I think it's cool that I still
> have it; I used it with my 286. Even more surprising, I still have the
> original software and the original manuals, too!)
Ok here goes (admitedly I am extremely new to Linux, but I think I know what
you're looking for), go into bash (run konsole or any other terminal emulator
program....should get you here ;-) and run mouseconfig.
And yes that means serial mouse.
I hope that helps
Mark