Comment 81 for bug 9068

I'm really disappointed that I even needed to look for this bug report tonight. I'm trying to install xubuntu on an older system with very limited resources and have not been successful with getting the serial mouse to work with any of the "how to's" I've seen yet. (Currently trying with 9.4).

In more than 15 years, I have never seen an OS installation that provides a GUI desktop environment not provide an option to manually select a serial mouse if no mouse was auto detected during the installation. Even Windows 3.1 and GeoWorks Ensemble do this.

Forgive my ignorance if I am incorrect, but if most Linux distros (in general) are open source... can't someone just look at the source code for another Linux flavor that allows this to see how they did it?

This is crude, inaccurate and incomplete, but couldn't the basic flow of operations go something like this:

If MouseAutoDetected = false then
   ChooseMouse()
End If

---

Sub ChooseMouse()
  x=msg ("No Mouse was detected. Would you like to configure a serial mouse?", YesNo)
  if x = true then
     QuitMouseSelection = 0
     do while z != 1
        msg "Select a serial port and driver from the lists below and click the Test Mouse button"
        'Obviously... this would be displayed on the screen.
        msg "Press Q to quit without configuring a mouse"
        z = TestMouseButton(y)
        'keyscan - was 'Q' pressed? if "Yes" QuitMouseSelection = 1 and exit sub...
        'used to escape sequence without configuring a mouse
     next
  else
     exit sub
  end if
end sub

---

Sub TestMouseButton_OnClick()
   msg "Move the mouse now"
   'timer runs for 5 seconds
   y = msg ("Did you see the mouse move?" YesNo)
end sub

The above is not intended to be accurate in any way... it is just intended to throw the idea out there so that some kind of an option could be provided.