Lost USB mouse after installing Gnome

[HarryG]

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 9:12 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, HarryG wrote:
> > I wanted to add gnome to my Mepis installation, but after I did, I lost
> > my usb mouse under KDE and Gnome.  In the Kinfo center, it sees my
> > reciever, but I can't get any thing to work.  (I HATE touchpads!).
> >
> > Any idea what Gnome may have done?  I installed via Synaptic, and my
> > sources are all testing.
>
> I'll bet that your xorg.conf got changed.  mouse support comes from your X
> configuration.


Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
  Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
  InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
 #InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
 #InputDevice "Touchpad" "CorePointer"
 #InputDevice "Serial Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection


and 


Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
  Driver "mouse"
  Option "Protocol" "auto"
  Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
  Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
  Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
  Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
  Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "USB Mouse"
  Driver "mouse"
  Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
  Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Don't have the PS/2 mouse, but included it just in case.

>From my humble knowledge, I can't see what it may be.  My USB ports seem to be 
working, as they see my printer and external DVD no problem.

Harry G