laptop PS2 External Mouse in X

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

an apparently trivial question. On my ThinkPad 600x, I can only use the 
internal track-point with X11. If I attach an external PS/2 mouse, it 
does not get used. I don't have xorg.conf, I am accustomed that with 
other OS's it "just works". I also tried plugging it in earlier, even at 
boot time. The light of the optical mouse works, thus it gets powered up.

Is there a way from console to know that the mouse corks? like checking 
a certain device?

And secondly, of course get it to work :) the red stick is cool, but... 
a mouse is just better if you have a table at hand!

Riccardo