I accidentally broke Emacs mouse support on the Linux console. o_O The TIOCLINUX patch for disabling dangerous IOCTLs for the Linux console driver (background discussed on the Wiki) ended up accidentally making the mouse cursor invisible on the Linux console (the proper text mode one, not xterm). I apologize for breaking this. We luckily found a patch for it and it is now rolling out to stable Linux kernels. If your mouse does not work as expected in Emacs on the Linux console, please update ...