usb mouse issue

[Donald Allen]

I am running 8.1 RELEASE on a Thinkpad X61. I have a wired Microsoft usb
mouse plugged into it. I have hal and dbus running, and when I start X,
everything is fine. However, if I shut down the X server and restart it (via
startx), the mouse no longer works, but the laptop's trackpoint device does
work. If I unplug and re-plug the mouse, it now works. Again, as with my
report on the usb disks, neither Linux nor OpenBSD exhibit this behavior on
this hardware.

/Don Allen