On Wednesday 07 Nov 2012 15:21 my mailbox was graced by a message from Rodrigo
Varella Rahmi who wrote:
> This bug is old, and was opened at a time when the use of mice with serial
> ports was common. The fact that he is still present today demonstrates the
> inefficiency in the past (and to some extent still today) of the team to
> solve this problem. After performing a test with a serial mouse in the
> latest version of the Windows system (Win8 Pro) it worked automatically.
Yes, because in the absence of anything else detected, Windoze decides the
mouse must be serial.
Ubuntu, for reasons unknown, does not.
Cheers,
Ron.
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Serial mouse/mice not autodetected
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