[plug] Mice (more)

[Bernard Blackham]

Reading further in that HOWTO (yes, im bored) :

     Microsoft Brand mice are often a cause of problems. The newest
     ``Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.1A'' has been reported not to work on
     many systems, although unplugging it and plugging it in again may
     help.  gpm version 1.13 and higher should also support 2.1A mice,
     using the pnp mouse type.  (See the gpm section for how to re-
     export this.)  The ``Microsoft Intellimouse'' also causes problems,
     although it should now be supported by XFree version 3.3 and later.

or:

     Problems with serial devices may be due to the serial port not
     being initialised correctly at boot. This is done by the setserial
     command, run from the start-up script /etc/rc.d/rc.serial. Check
     the man page for setserial and the Serial-HOWTO for more details.
     It may be worth a little experimentation with types, for instance
     try setserial /dev/mouse uart 16550 or 16550a regardless of what
     port you actually have.  (For instance, mice don't like the
     16c550AF).

Worth a look.... Makes some light bed time reading.



-- 
 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au