[newbie] Mouse systems serial mouse problem

[Peter Cummins]

I recently asked about a Mouse Systems serial mouse with problems.  At a guess
no-one here knows how to fix this one, so does anyone know where else I can
look?

> I have a "Mouse Systems" serial optical mouse that I currently use with RedHat
> 6.1.  On the RedHat system it works fine, but when I try to install Mandrake
> 7.1 on the same computer, without changing anything, it won't work.  Using the
> keyboard I can select that I have a "Mouse systems serial mouse" on ttyS0,
> which is the case, but any mouse movement produces only jerky movement up to
> the top left corner of the screen.

Thanks in advance

                Peter