ps/2 mouse not working anymore
 

hello all
I have a linux box running debian testing, and after doing apt-get upgrade I found it impossible to restart kde with startx

The error displayed is "no core pointer found". Right, that helps. The mouse is an optical Logitech, it lights up fine but cat /dev/input/mice only says "no device".
does any of you have any clue of what I could do to sort this out?
thanks a lot

Most likely your XF86Config file (which is what X uses) has a problem. Please post the contents of it; it most likely lives in /etc/X11 something similar. -- J.W.

XFree86-config ?
 

that's what I thought at first too... but I checked it and it hasn't changed (not the bit about the mouse anyway) and like I said in my previous post, doing

gets me:
(which actually means "no such device"). to me that seems to exclude the XFree config problem