i'm running armedslack 13.37 in qemu. host os is slack 13.37, and qemu is 1.0,1 installed by sbopkg. installed armedslack per the instructions on armedslack.org, and chose the usb mouse in the installer, after my first install attempt failed with the same problem, no mouse, with the ps2 mouse selected during install. if i add -usbdevice mouse to the start script (disk_launch) qemu can't read the disk image (???). anybody run across this before????

There was a time when the USB mouse didn't work in QEMU with the Versatile platform. However, I've just looked at the setup.mouse script and I have noticed that whether you set a USB or PS2 mouse, the mouse is configured as "PS2". I don't recall whether that's a deliberate choice or a bug - probably deliberate as I recall there being fluctuation around mouse device names when I was patching that script-- however it works fine in -current and it does mean you chose the right mouse which ever option you chose ;-)

Where doesn't the mouse work? on the console? Did you select gpm to start upon boot? Try sh /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm restart

If it's inside of X11 then I'm not sure - The xorg conf for Versatile just uses /dev/mouse - so if that's setup correctly then it ought to work.

You shouldn't need to do that, but you've most likely mangled the command line for qemu. Try removing that line and see if restarting gpm works.

I did a test install of 13.37 and the mouse at the console (using gpm) and inside X works fine.

My guess is that you did not start gpm. You can always reconfigure the mouse setting and make gpm start upon boot by running /var/log/setup/setup.mouse

tnx, but trying both of the above didn't work. i did however, do some more digging and found out what the problem was. there were errors in messages saying that the 3.4.4-versatile kernel modules could not be found. i was using the kernel images from here: http://armed.slackware.com/fixes/versatile/ but had not installed the fixed kernel modules. so i did this after booting the qemu image:
and rebooted the image. after this gpm works (i didn't have a text mode cursor before, but i do now), as well as having a working mouse in X.

These kernels and modules are for -current, not 13.37. If you download and install 13.37 from the armedslack-13.37 tree, it works perfectly.