Hi, I had the "glourious" idea to have at the look at the bug reports and indeed found a helpful hint.
Somebody reported, that he solved the problem in a) changing in /etc/X11/XFConfig86 the section Pointer back to Protocol "PS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" and b) in downgrading gpm (deinstall new gpm and reinstall old gpm of slink) to version 1.14. He wrote that it is important to do it in this chronological order to be successful. This was presumably not the intention of the gpm maintainer when updating to the new version 1.17.8, but it helped me. The device line was inserted by cut and paste under X11. :-) Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]