Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

Recently I said good-bye to the not-so-often-used version of Ubuntu 5.10 and replaced it with the most recent version 7.10 (again only one CD-ROM, which was the main reason to install it).

Install went painless except for one thing -the mouse.

I use an old serial MouseMan from Logitech, which is not even detected by the 7.10 version.

Surfing the net was not a big deal except, that all recipies found there where incomplete.

Here's what you should do to get your Serial MouseMan working correctly:

Section      "InputDevice"
  Identifier "Configured Mouse"
  Driver     "mouse"
  Option     "CorePointer"
  Option     "Device"       "/dev/ttyS0"
  Option     "Protocol"     "Microsoft"
EndSection

Depending on your connector, it could also be "/dev/ttyS1" (the second serial port).

The protocoll should be "Microsoft". On my machine, leaving this on "Auto" did not work. because it led to very long delays (30 sec or so) after X-Server restart until the mouse decided, that it was really there and would move.