XFree86-4 and external mice

[Bruno Waes]

i have a sony vaio f180 and i have a working X4, only my alps pad is broken so i need to use a external mouse i have a ps2 and a serial one, but i cant get one of them to work, although i tested progeny debian before and the ps2 one worked ok there ...   any idea what is wrong ?   thanks   bruno         <!--StartFragment-->Section "ServerLayout" Identifier     "XFree86 Configured" Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "Module" Load  "GLcore" Load  "dbe" Load  "dri" Load  "extmod" Load  "glx" Load  "pex5" Load  "record" Load  "xie" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier  "Keyboard0" Driver      "keyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier  "Mouse0" Driver      "mouse" Option      "Protocol" "PS/2" Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier   "Monitor0" VendorName   "Monitor Vendor" ModelName    "Monitor Model" HorizSync    31.5-48.5 VertRefresh  60 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:-         #Option     "NoLinear"         #Option     "NoAccel"         Option     "SWcursor"         #Option     "noMMIO"         #Option     "internDisp"         #Option     "externDisp"         #Option     "LcdCenter"         #Option     "ShadowFB"         #Option     "NoStretch"         #Option     "pciBurst"         #Option     "Rotate"         #Option     "progLcdModeRegs"         #Option     "progLcdModeStretch"         #Option     "overrideValidateMode" Identifier  "Neomagic NM2200" Driver      "neomagic" VendorName  "Neomagic" BoardName   "NM2200" BusID       "PCI:0:8:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device     "Neomagic NM2200" Monitor    "Monitor0" DefaultDepth  16         DefaultFbBpp  16 SubSection "Display" Depth     1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth     4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth     8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth     15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth     16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth     24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" EndSection