Bugzilla – Bug 141094
SaX2 has no way to add serial mouse
Last modified: 2006-01-05 00:03:57 UTC
If a serial mouse (ie, on the serial port) is added to the system, there is no way to tell SaX2 to go look for it. "Mouse 1" can be set to a serial mouse, but the serial mouse will not work (SaX2 has not even asked which port). If YaST has some other module to add new serial mice, I couldn't find it.
A serial mouse is unfortunately the only device which is not handled by the kernel input interface and therefore doesn't work immediately if plugged in. To get that device visible in SaX you need to tell sax to reprobe for new hardware. This can be done by calling: sax2 -r
Aha! Thanks for the tip. A nice upgrade for SaX2 would be a note about this in the mouse module.
I added a note about hardware changes while starting up sax2 but people often start sax from a menu and so the console messages are not visible. To put that hint as graphics window on the screen will bother the user too much... Because of that reason we decided to add a note to the users manual I think this should be ok for you as well, shouldn't it ?
I agree completely!