Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 03/20/2011 06:46 PM, Steven Sciame wrote:
> teven@debtop:~$ aptitude show gpm
> Package: gpm
> State: not installed
> Version: 1.20.4-3.3
> Priority: optional
> Section: misc
> Maintainer: Debian GPM Team <pkg-gpm-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Uncompressed Size: 557 k
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), debconf (>= 0.5) |
> debconf-2.0,
> dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info, debianutils (>= 1.7), ucf (>= 0.28),
> lsb-base
> Conflicts: libgpmg1
> Description: General Purpose Mouse interface
> This package provides a daemon that captures mouse events when the system
> console is active, and delivers events to applications through a library.
>
> By default, the daemon provides a 'selection' mode, so that
> cut-and-paste with
> the mouse works on the console just as it does under X.
> Homepage: http://unix.schottelius.org/gpm/

That seems to be your problem, gpm is not installed.

As I do not use gnome this may not be required but the only way I can 
get a mouse to work is by installing the gpm package and configuring it.

Regards

WT