to follow up, I eventually got this working by running mdetect -v I discovered that if mdetect finds nothing it defaults to intellimouse on psaux (on my mobo ymmv) replacing the mouse then gave me the output /dev/ttyS0 microsoft which can be used to edit (copy old version first I ended up with no x at all once) /etc/X11/xorg.conf hopefully this will help someone else PS mdetect is now in dapper 6.06
-- Serial mice are not autodetected https://launchpad.net/bugs/9068 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
