I have a ps/2 mouse that I am using on one of my boxes that I just reintalled. During instalation on Mandrake 10.1 Community, in the summary section, it asks you what type of mouse you have. I answered generic ps/2, usb mouse. The installation then asks me to test the mouse, it works fine, not to mention that the installation has mouse support right off the bat. When I finish the installation, and boot into the os, there is a mouse, but it is not moving, ie there is no mouse support. I have reinstalled the os twice now with different drivers to see if I could fix this, but to no avail. Is there any way that this can be fixed without reintalling the os.

ps: in xorg.conf, the driver for my mouse is just simply "mouse"

Can you post the full Mouse section from xorg.conf? Having that information would be helpful -- J.W.

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Generic PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

As su or root, type modprobe psmouse. The 2.6.x kernel does not detect PS/2 mouse. You have to load this module by yourself.

If that does not work change /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux in the xorg.conf file.

thank you, the second solution solved the problem

Excellent - congrats on solving the problem bcf2 and thanks for posting back with the solution that worked for you. Thanks also to Electro for providing the advice. This will be helpful to future LQ'ers who may encounter the same issue. -- J.W.