Brian Coiley wrote:
"Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message news:33vWV-5m6-17@gated-at.bofh.it... Thanks, Ron, I have now got it working with the VESA driver, but not, unfortunately, with my USB mouse. Trawling the archives reveals countless suggestions for getting a USB mouse working, all of them different, and none of them successful (at least, of the ones I've understood well enough to try).
Just as an emergency work-around, you should be able to press Shift-Numlock, which will turn on the "keypad mouse" feature. Then the 5 key is a click, the other keys move the mouse in certain directions; the / sets 5 to left-click; the * sets the 5 to middle-click; - sets the 5 to right-click; 0 is click-and-hold; Del is unhold, etc.
Shift-Numlock again will turn off the feature. -- Kent