Sometime Today, Parul Mathur assembled some asciibets to say:
I have a Microsoft Intellimouse (2 buttons) which is serially connected to DOS COM1.
Whenever I run KDE, the mouse does not respond but it does change
Does it work in the console? Do you have gpm running?
its icon depending on what is positioned underneath it. For example,
You don't need a mouse to get a mouse icon.
Make sure that your mouse works elsewhere, to isolate the problem either to the mouse driver, or to KDE.
Philip