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Serial mouse does't work without restart, but USB mouse will. Why?

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When I connect a USB mouse to a working system, it will work fine but serial mouse isn't recognized by the system? To get the serial mouse working, I need to restart the system. Why is this?

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If I understand correctly, you want to know why USB connections don't need a reboot and serial connections do. It might have changed, but as I recall, USB ports are always monitored, so if you add something, it automatically get recognized. Serial p…

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