Ubuntu
casper package

  1. Bug #9068
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 9068

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 9068] Re: Serial mice are not autodetected

> How is a novice user supposed to know what to do when their serial
> mouse doesn't work?

Read the documentation :)

> Even if there is no working autodetect, at the very least there should
> be some way to manually configure a serial mouse during LiveCD
> startup. Other distributions have had this right for many years.

That may be the right thing to do: if no ps2 or usb mouse can be
detected, prompt for serial mouse config.