this appears to work:

or at least stuff is output. I've never used the POSIX::read/open stuff before so there may be holes I didn't catch.

did the sprintf stuff to get the hex stream rather than unprintable garbage. May not work the way I think it does. :) 
                                                                      
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use strict;
my $data;
my $fd;
my $buf;

use POSIX;

$fd = POSIX::open("/dev/mouse", &POSIX::O_RDONLY) ||
    die ($!);

while($data = POSIX::read($fd, $buf, 1))
{
   print "READ $data Bytes: " . join("", map(sprintf("%x",ord($_)), sp
+lit(//, $buf))) . "\n";
}

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