Greetings all,

I have read a lot posts trying to find a solution but haven't managed to solve it yet. I have installed Slackware 10.2 on an old P233 that uses a serial mouse connection that plugs into 'com1'. The mouse seems to work in console mode but as soon as I boot into X (one of the lightweight window managers) the mouse pointer just stays in the middle of the screen. I have tried various settings in xorg.conf but nothing seems to work. Here is my settings:

Identifier "Mouse 1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

/dev/mouse is currently pointing at ttyS0 and the mouse is plugged into 'com1'.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2006-05-12 19:43 /dev/mouse -> ttyS0

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Modify according to this:
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Maybe you'll have to do this too:
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

Thanks a lot for the reply, your suggestion doesn't seem to work either, unfortunately. Not sure why it doesn't want to work.

Hi, I had an old serial mouse too, I,m working with slack 10.2 as you and like you I did had problems configuring it in xorg even if the gpm was pointing to the serial com1 port ttyS0

What I had in xorg.conf and work perfect with my serial mouse is this:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"

I had this part marked with # seemed that with this activated the serial mouse doesn,t work:

# Option "Protocol" "Auto"

You cannot put the protocol PS/2 because you didn,t point it to it, and you don,t had a PS2 mice either, I select in the installation that my mouse was a Serial Intellimouse, maybe you select serial microsoft, or other one try to remember you will need to put it here:

# The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are:
# Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
# Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
# MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
# ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"

Now in the part of the Device don,t forget to point to com1 which is /dev/ttyS0

# Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
# Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"


For me this xorg.conf configuration work fine with my Serial old Mouse, hope for you too.

Thanks a lot conrado, that worked perfect. I didn't think I was ever going to get it working and was ready to give up.

Thanks again, really appreciated.

Cheers