[rescue] A question of mousing. =)

[G W Adkins]

> I am a new Solaris user.  I am running a SPARCstation 5 with Solaris
> 2.6.  It starts into CDE fine, but the mouse doesn't move.  The buttons
> seem to work fine, but moving the mouse is like moving a mechanical
> mouse with years of gook in it.  Since the mouse is optical and the
> mouse and keyboard are out of the box, I have no idea what could be
> wrong with it.  Any ideas? I'm not sure that I need to configure the
> mouse manually, since it worked fine for the first few seconds I used
> it, and no amount of powering down or anything seems to help.  I also
> tried using both plugs in the side of the keyboard.  The keyboard works
> great in both, and the mouse works in niether.
> 
are you using an optical mouse pad? 
(the metal sheet with the grid lines on it...)
?