[time-nuts] TimeLab with Wine: No RS232 interface available

Brent Gordon time-nuts at adobe-labs.com
Sat Feb 7 19:57:35 UTC 2015


Don't remove the serial mouse, just disable it.  If you remove it, it 
will return on the next reboot.

On 2/7/2015 9:11 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
> There's also the whole "microsoft serial mouse device" problem.  A
> typical Windows 7 install (and other versions as well) will have a MS
> serial mouse device in the device manager, and when booting, the device
> driver goes out and looks for the mouse on COM1 (and maybe other COM
> devices) If the wrong characters come back from the device at the wrong
> time (e.g. something from the GPS receiver), the mouse driver takes over
> the device (and randomly moves the cursor around the screen, sometimes).
>   You need to explicitly disable the device (and/or remove it) in Device
> Manager.



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