New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

[Ed Young <eddythejekyll@gmail.com>]

I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a
/dev/input/mice no device found error. 

I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse
still doesn't work. 
I added mousedev to /etc/modules and now when I reboot, X starts but
still no mouse. 

I've run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and experimented with various
mouse configs but still no mouse. 

Here's the tail output of XFree86.0.log:
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver
(**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
(**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 5
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type:
MOUSE)
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
(II) Open APM successful
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) Open APM successful
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

Any ideas? 

Thanks, 

Ed