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Old February 26th 17, 09:47 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
David W. Hodgins
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Default MS Mouse Replacement

On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:27:48 -0500, Paul wrote:

Serial (RS232) mice are different. They even work in Win10. But
on Linux, I think only Puppy would use one. The other distros always use
my USB mouse, and ignore the serial port as a potential serial mouse
source.


Likely just need to load the kernel module sermouse to get the mouse
to work in any linux distro.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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