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Posted: Dec. 08 2005,15:43 QUOTE
Howdy, long time lurker, first time poster. Hope this is the proper forum for this...

I'm trying to get a serial port mouse on a Pentium 233MMX w/48 MB RAM to be recognized by DamnSmallLinux(DSL) 1.5.

The mouse works with an older version, DSL 0.4.10, but not with DSL 0.8.4 or 1.5.

I've tried configuring the mouse with xsetup.sh several times, using COMs 1-4 with no luck.

I can use version 0.4.10, but I'd rather use the newer release. Any suggestions on how to get the serial port mouse working is appreciated.

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Posted: Dec. 08 2005,16:54 QUOTE
It would help us help you if you could post the results of
cat .xserverrc
This will display the mouse option currently being used.
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Posted: Dec. 08 2005,17:16 QUOTE
post the results of
cat .xserverrc

No problems.

# cat .xserverrc
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xfbdev -2button -mouse /dev/ttyS0 -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null
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Posted: Dec. 08 2005,18:10 QUOTE
Can you post the file from the older version of DSL?

It might not be called .xserverrc back then.  If so, snoop around.  It might exist under a different name.
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Posted: Dec. 08 2005,18:50 QUOTE
In 0.4.10 cat .xserverrc shows no such file or directory.

cat xsetup is

exec /usr/bin/X11/Xfbdev -2button -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

That's about as close to the other file as I can find so far. I'll keep looking.
I noted that when configuring xsetup while booting 0.4.10, the setup dialogue does not ask for a COM port, while the other versions do.

Any other info I can provide, just ask.
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