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Old 01-18-2008, 05:32 PM
sarak13_2000@yahoo.com
 
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Default Linspire not detecting serial mouse

I tried to install Linspire 4.5 in my old machine which has serial
mouse
mounted in COM1 port .
The setup program is not able to detect it .
Can somebody help me ?

Thanks.

( Configuration : PIII , 550 MHz , 192 MB RAM )

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Old 01-18-2008, 05:32 PM
moma
 
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Default Re: Linspire not detecting serial mouse

sarak13_2000@yahoo.com wrote:
> I tried to install Linspire 4.5 in my old machine which has serial
> mouse mounted in COM1 port .
>
> Thanks.


As sudo or root-user, do:
# modprobe -r mousedev
# modprobe -r sermouse

# modprobe -vv mousedev
# modprobe -vv sermouse




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