Comment 79 for bug 9068

FYI, Red Hat has a mouse config utility that handles serial mice:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-mouseconfig.html

Also, Mandriva handles a serial mouse, but appears to also be having issues now which would indicate it's an xorg problem in general:

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=53544