USB mouse not working

Every time I plug in any wired mouse recently, I get similar to the below on VCS1: >[1443270.286164] usb 6-1: new low-speed USB device number 15 using uhci_hcd [1443270.454270] usb 6-1: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0083 [1443270.461874] usb 6-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [1443270.469328] usb 6-1: Product: Basic Optical Mouse [1443270.476877] usb 6-1: Manufacturer: Microsoft [1443270.501140] input: Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/input/input26 [1443270.509327] hid-generic 0003:045E:0083.000F: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0 .. but no mouse functionality. The last time [I spent some trying to solve this](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89138/take-copy-of-tty0-text) , the final line that is now missing from the above, was No input driver specified, ignoring this device I haven't tried a computer reboot, because I am interested in using this opportunity to become more acquainted with the mouse subsystem(s) of Linux. Found https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49272/restart-usb-mouse-driver while writing up this question, but not sure how to try steps 2 & 3 of what this OP tried (Have restarted X, however - No change). What should I look at next?