Some more on this. Note that this is still using a KVM virtual machine. I am not having any problems on real hardware (with Intel graphics). Today, I switched to "sddm". I think that still runs under X. Using "sddm", I was able to login to a Wayland-plasma session. And the mouse is working fine there. I then tried to login to a Wayland-gnome session. And the mouse is dead in Wayland Gnome. The Gnome session otherwise works, except it is hard to do anything without a mouse. So this looks to be a problem only for Gnome, and not for everything Wayland.