Weird Mouse Behaviour with 2.6

[Detlef <dh_hh_remove@web.de>]

Hi out there,

Basically my mouse works but only after using the following procedure: 
a) boot Kernel 2.4
 Kindly ignoring the fact that the Keyboard and Mouse will not work
 because set-up for Kernel 2.6 
 (IMHO the most useless change to the kernel ever)
b) reboot and use kernel 2.6.11 (or 2.6.8)
 got to ssh to the machine from a different box to reboot
 because the kernel handles the keyboard differntly
As said before after using this procedure the mouse works as expected even
after further reboots of 2.6.11.2 / 2.6.8-2. 


    BUT:

When I cold start the machine and directly boot into Kernel 2.6.11, the
mouse will not work at all.
cat of /dev/input/mice or /dev/input/mouse0  does show no result

mdetect and hwinfo do still detect the mouse in /dev/input/mouse0

but cannot get it to work. 

At the moment I suspect that the hardware is not initialised correctly and
after booting 2.4, 2.6 is more than happy to accept 2.4 has done the work
for it. 

any ideas? 

cheers
 Detlef