i reinstalled CRUX & found that CRUX by default does not enable the mouse. one *has to* enable mouse support before compiling kernel
That's what people suggested you, IIRC.
of course people told me so & it was nearly unbelievable, that is why i did not reinstall when first time i heard about that. CRUX is the only Linux distro where, in Linux kernel, you have to "enable" mouse (out of SOURCEMAGE, Gentoo, Fedora, BLAG, Frugalware, Arch, gNewSense & some others i did not remember) but every distro has different set of features & targets a particular set of problems so it can not be said that one is bad & other is good.
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