tlug: mouse problem in X solved?

[Scott <scottro@example.com>]

I'm wondering if anyone on the list has had the following problem--I put in 
Mandrake 6.1 which is basically RedHat 6.0 and couldn't get the mouse to 
work at all in X.  So, chasing around the web, found and tried various 
solutions, none of which seemed to work that well.  Then, powered off, 
powered back on and voila, the mouse worked fine.  Going to XF86Config to 
see what had happened, I found that under pointer Protocol had changed to 
"Auto" which was about the only one I hadn't tried, and Device had changed 
to /dev/ttyS0  which I had tried.  

I was trying various solutions, and usually, rather than rebooting, just 
restarting X.  I suspect it might have been one from a minihowto of holding 
down the left mouse button as the computer powered on.  If not that, then 
using mouseconfig --kickstart --device ttyS0  (RH's site had suggested 
device cua0 but that hadn't worked so I tried the other)

My question, elementary as it is--has anyone experienced this and could it 
simply be fixed from the start by going into XF86Config and changing the 
protocol and device to auto and /dev/ttyS0.  (this was by the way, an MS 
2.1A mouse, which, in the course of my searching, I learned does have some 
problems with various distributions.
Thanks for any imput--no pun intended 
Scott (the dumb one)
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