Comment 57 for bug 9068
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| Tom Arnold (g0tt) wrote Re: Serial mice are not autodetected | #57 |
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Hmm, I don't know.
I guess I would do it like Windows95 and just use "Standard Serial Mouse" protocol. That should make most people happy ( like 99 % .. like the ones that complain a lot :P ). People do not exspect Ubuntu to work with every obscure hardware ( well some probably do ) but it should work with hardware that Windows works with out of the box ( which isn't that much .. actually it is very little ).
If that is a no go for you how about low tech solution .. have a configure dialog pop up and ask people what kind of mouse they have.
Or maybe a high tech solution ( not sure this is possible .. I am brainstroming :) ) .. analyse the signals you receive from the serial ports and guess the protocol.
Marking this as wontfix is not the right solution though IMHO.