[solved] Getting a HUGE serial trackball to with with xorg!!

I was just given this awesome Kensington Expert Mouse but it's serial-driven.  What do I do to make it work?
Last edited by synthead (2008-04-12 16:13:11)

Aha!  You just made me realize what I needed to do.  I put a new InputDevice entry in there, mapped to ttyS0, and it works!
Here's what I did.  I added this to the InputDevice area:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Serial Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
And added this to my ServerLayout section:
Section "ServerLayout"
... bunch of other stuff ...
InputDevice "Serial Mouse"
EndSection
Wham - 1994 ftw!

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