.....sorry sending this again in case it got missed as I saw someone else with mouse troubles...:)
Using debian testing albeit when i upgraded I did have unstable listed and NOT testing but its testing I have? ..whateva...i'll look again mabye i'm wrong and that my sources.lst file isn't correct...:) okay...same thing for me from different angle...my mouse used to work until I tried unsuccessfully to install the 3d drivers from NVIDIA for my riva card....well I fried my XF86Config-4 file (monitor kept popping and wouldn't give me gui login ) so i had to re-do it myself..no sweat but now the mouse won't move at all even though I now 'have' the gui login coming up..... I'm tried all combo's reasonable as other user did ...taking default of /dev/mouse doesn't work either nor does /dev/ttyS1...i got tired of hastle and thought i'd ask here what /dev others are using their mouse on...the xf86config.0.log file shows no errors .... Thank whomever :) lee -===