Comment 21 for bug 9068

(In reply to comment #20)
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> "Due to this problem, none of my friends are using ubuntu. And my 10 cd set of
> ubuntulinux has gone waste.They say that if a system cant detect even a mouse,
> we wont use it."

And your friends are plain right. It's a one year old bug and still without a single solution. Heck, they
haven't even tried to fix it. "Legacy device" isn't a good answer: any PS/2 device is legacy. Floppy drives
are legacy. x86 is legacy. Legacy is not a valid excuse to not support such a widely deployed hardware as
serial mice.

At least Ubuntu/Canonical could assign someone to look at this and post a patch, just to give a little
guidance, a starting point. No doubt there'll be plenty of people to test and improve the patch, I surely
will. But this must start somewhere. It cannot be that difficult, several GPL Linux distributions detects
serial mouse without a glitch and we/Ubuntu could borrow some code from them (Conectiva is an example I can
remember, probably Fedora/RH/Mandrake/Suse also detects serial mouse sucessfully). Hey, even Windows detects
a serial mouse! It's a real shame that Ubuntu cannot accomplish that.