It is impossible to use a serial mouse with xorg, because the mousedrv does not see the "Device" line. I have modified mousedrv, and have confirmed this with printf statements. The test for "Device" always returns NULL, because it is before the call to CollectOptions. An identical test placed after CollectOptions does see the xorg.conf "Device" line and can printf to confirm this. The test for "Protocol" is right before the "Device" test and fails for the same reason. I have modified a mousedrv by reording the calls, and have confirmed that "Device" in xorg.conf works simply by putting the CollectOptions before any calls to test for Options. Have not got "Protocol" to work yet. There is no way to use a serial mouse without using the "Device" line in xorg.conf. HAL and UDEV cannot discover a serial mouse. This has blocked use of a serial mouse on Linux 2.6 over 18 months and 2 distributions. I still use Linux 2.4 because of this. There is no way around it. Other mice do not have 3 buttons. There is no reason to have code in mousedrv checking for Options in a way that cannot possibly work.
Created attachment 57781 [details] [review] DEBUG patch, to verify and test the problem and solution DEBUG statements, conditional.
Created attachment 57782 [details] [review] Patch mousedrv to recognize Device and Protocol This patch is required to use a serial mouse with any of the recemt xorg mousedrv. Apply patch to xf86-input-mouse-1.7.0/src.
xf86-input-mouse 1.7.2 already has a patch to restore Device & Protocol recognition: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-mouse/commit/?id=b65651974ee5620086b484086ea12d78c92fa369 Does that work for you?
The existing patch is hardly adequate. The GETOPTIONS was not missing, it was misplaced, and now it is called twice. While that might get it working in some situations, I had to make the changes as appeared in my patch to get all the situations that I could test to work as before, without breaking something anew. My debugging experience was that moving only one line, such as that, would break some of the other tests.
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