Make sure you have gpm installed. :o) Same thing happened to me before I
installed it.
If you already do, that could be another problem (obviously!) ;o)
Also if you don't have the correct device in X (like the correct mouse
type), X won't be happy. On my work machine this was reflected by the
mouse only going about 50 pixels from the edges... and the mouse would
click itself for me (how considerate, eh?). Once I told it to point to
/dev/mouse (regardless of what kind of mouse it thought it was), it fixed
the problem (twice, I had to tell vmware to do the same after seeing the
same erratic behaviour).
-nicole
> My system is a clunky old Pentium 133, with a serial mouse (on ttyS0 I
> think), and serial modem (on ttyS1). I have recently installed Corel
> Linux (Debian with a slightly modified KDE desktop) and it's mostly
> working...
> I have no Win or MS os on the machine at all, and although it has a PCI
> network card, it's standalone right now.
>
> The weirdness is: Every so often I boot up and have a mouse cursor, but
> no mouse operation. Right from when the x-server starts up (before KDE
> displays its login dialog) the X cursor is no go.
>
> I checked /dev and it seems there is no "mouse" file/device in there
> when this happens. The plot thickens - no-one leave the room!
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