Delay before mouse responds

[apchar]

I have a mandrake linux 10.0 box setup as a kiosk. X starts on bootup, icewm is started, the user is logged in, and opera starts automatically.
But after a fresh boot, the mouse cursor doesn't respond right away. You have to jiggle the mouse around for about 5 seconds before the cursor responds. It's as if the OS or X doesn't recognize the mouse until it moves.
The input device section of XFree86Config file is:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
and this line is in the ServerLayout section
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

The mouse is a logitech 3 button optical wheel mouse on the USB port.
How do I eliminate this delay? It makes people think the machine is broken and they walk away.
Thanks.

[budman7]

I don't know if this will help you or not, but this is my entry in SUSE 9.2.

I have the same exact mouse that you do, except I use mine with a ps/2 adapter due to the KVM switch.

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

don't ask why it says 7 buttons, that part was generated by SUSE. The only thing I modified was the ZAxisMapping