I had this same problem, and at the suggestion of another member of
this newsgroup, I uncommented the "hid" line, and it worked. (Thanks,
Jacques!) Uncommenting both lines also worked.

However, after a period of inactivity (maybe a couple of hours), the
mouse cursor disappears. I can't say if this would happen if the mouse
were being used... this is a server box. I found that unloading +
reloading the modules using "rmmod" and "insmod" restores it. But it
is annoying to do that all the time, and I'd like to figure out what
the problem is. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dan

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:43:55 GMT, "Giuseppe Marini"
<cprogrammer@katamail.com> wrote:

>I can only try to help you, but this solved my problem:
>try to uncomment these two lines:
>
>#/sbin/modprobe hid
>#/sbin/modprobe usbmouse
>
>in /etc/rc.c/rc.modules.
>Try this way and let me know if it works...
>Bye
>
>p.s. more information in the HowTo "Getting your optical wireless
>intellimouse explorer to work in Slack", on Linuxquestions.org
>