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How about

ls -l /dev/mouse

HMMM yes...

In 0.4.10, ls -l /dev/mouse
/dev/mouse -> /dev/ttyS1

In 1.5, ls -l /dev/mouse is
/dev/mouse: No such file or directory

Thanks cbagger01, you set me in the right direction.

I created /dev/mouse, made ln -s /dev/ ttyS1 /dev/mouse, ran xsetup.sh and set it to COM2, and the serial mouse works just fine.

Thanks again for all responses,
regards, netcrawl.

FYI,

Linux device ttyS1 is usually "COM2" in MSWindows terminology.

You should be able to boot with

dsl xsetup

and then choose this for your mouse port.

I had in fact used dsl xsetup several times, and tried all the COM ports (ttyS0 to ttyS3) and the serial mouse would not function.

Once I ran 'ls -l /dev/mouse' on both DSL versions, the difference was obvious so I manually created the /dev/mouse file and the sym-link to ttyS1 which of course is COM2.

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