usb mouse issue

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Sunday 26 September 2010 13:51:14 Donald Allen wrote:
> 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

Usually this is not a USB kernel issue. Try looking in the HAL area. Somtimes 
it helps to CTRL+ALT+F1 then CTRL+ALT+F9

--HPS