I have a Pentium Pro 200 equipped with an ATI Rage Pro Turbo PCI video card and a Microsoft Intellimouse. The problem seems to be, I believe, related to the video driver that is selected by default (found by installer) or the mouse driver or both. I was, at first, using Caldera Open Linux 2.3 and I found that, about 50% of the time, my pointer would show up on my screen when the KDE login screen showed up, but was frozen. I was not able to move it. The other 50% of the time it would work just fine. I purchased my copy of RedHat Linux 6.1 today only to find the same problem, only worse. Now, when I start GNOME, my pointer shows up, but when I move it, my mouse dissappears and flashes ocassionally throughout the screen, but I am unable to use it for anything. Furthermore, when I reboot MS Windows 98 (if I don't shut the machine down entirely before) my mouse is not recognized. I don't know if this is a common problem, if it is a problem related to the mouse or the video driver. What I do know, is that it is a problem that is consistent with both RedHat and Caldera. Please help. Bernardo J. Passariello
What type of Intellimouse is this that you are using? Serial or PS/2? It sounds like the wrong mouse protocol is getting loaded and used for your mouse and that is what results in the behavior that you are seeing. As a workaround, you might want to run "mouseconfig" as root from a command prompt. This will ask you to identify your mouse, what port it is on and then make the appropriate changes for both console and X modes. Try running X again and see if the problem is solved. If you are still seeing problems, then you will want to run "Xconfigurator" again as root from the command line. This will ask questions about the video card that you are using, as well as allow you to tell which mouse protocol to use under X. Please reopen this bug is these solutions do not remedy your problems.