serial mouse problem after upgrading to ubuntu 9.04

[trldp]

I just upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04. After the upgrade my serial mouse doesn't work, anymore. Even 'cat /dev/ttyS0' doesn't give any output. Is there anything I can do to make it work again?

[KhurramM]

First things First:

Is your Mouse working? Check cables.

If OK. Then on the gdm just try unplug mouse for 10 sec , and the re-plug it back.

Hope this works.

[tute]

I'm having exactly the same problem.

Before I could make serial mice work doing either:

1. In /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
   
   

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

1. (From http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...-Mouse.html#s3):
   

   ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse

No one works now. The weird part is that the link ttyS0 -> mouse diesn't show up when I reboot.

Also lost in here...
Regards.

[trldp]

Is your Mouse working? Check cables.

My mouse works perfect on my debian and my (old) kubuntu 8.10 system. Only on my Ubuntu 9.04 it doesn't work. The cables are OK

If OK. Then on the gdm just try unplug mouse for 10 sec , and the re-plug it back.

No, doesn't work either

[noirwrit]

I've tried a slight variation on your method two above and it works for me:

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

This is from a fresh install on a 32-bit Intel machine. The mouse doesn't work during the login screens and there's a slight pause after the appearance for the desktop before it becomes active, but it works just fine afterwards.

I had two issues I couldn't resolve on my 64-bit AMD machine after upgrading and so I started over from scratch on that one. They were: 1) The sound quit working even with PulseAudio removed (interestingly, it always worked when tested, just not inside other software). and 2) "Hey, your index is corrupted! Wanna, re-index? It might take a while." "Sure." "Hey, your index is corrupted! . . ."

[tute]

Wow, it worked!
Didn't work with Protocol Auto, but with your lines and "Protocol Microsoft" it got working!
Thanks, now I can use my computer!

[knoid]

I had the same problem but enabling the lines I was using in xorg.conf didn't work for me.

With the help of a friend I was able to fix it by creating a text file named '10-mouse.fdi' in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ and putting the following in it:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<deviceinfo version='0.2'>
  <device>
    <match key='info.capabilities' contains='input.mouse'>
      <merge key='input.x11_driver' type='string'>mouse</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Device" type="string">/dev/ttyS0</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Protocol" type="string">ThinkingMouse</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">false</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.CorePointer" type="string">On</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Buttons" type="string">4</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.ButtonMapping" type="string">1 2 3 4</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

The crucial line seems to be

<merge key='input.x11_driver' type='string'>mouse</merge>

It wouldn't work until I got that line in there.