> (3) There was a problem with the mouse setup. I selected a PS/2 mouse > during the installation. However, when the X display manager (WDM in my > case) was started, the mouse wasn't working. I checked, and it seemed > that /dev/mouse was symlinked to sth like "/dev/gpmdata|..". I removed > that symlink and symlinked /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux and everything was > ok after that.
If you have gpm installed and configured for repeating mode, then /dev/mouse should be linked to /dev/gpmdata. Do you not have gpm running? Eric