Gnome upgrade killed mouse

[Lowell Gilbert]

Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> writes:

> I ran the gnome_upgrade.sh script and now my mouse doesn't.  Even if I
> run Xorg -configure and start X with the generated xorg.conf.new file,
> the mouse doesn't work.
> 
> I can see the mouse being detected in the dmesg.boot, so it appears to
> be a problem with Xorg rather than device detection.  Any suggestions
> would be welcomed, since my desktop is essentially useless at this
> point.  (I'm sending this from my Winbloze laptop.)
> 
> One other question.  After running the gnome_upgrade.sh script, when I
> run portupgrade there are updates to gnome and lots of gstreamer
> plugin stuff. Is it safe to run those through portupgrade?  Or do I
> need to run the gnome_upgrade.sh script again?

Are you running moused?
If so, does the mouse work on the console?
Does the mouse work in a simpler X environment, like twm?