Why my mouse does not work under console (under xterm i works fine)?

[z0rg]

Why my mouse does not work under console (under xterm i works fine)?

z0rg

$ mc -V
The Midnight Commander 4.5.51
with mouse support on xterm and the Linux console.
Edition: text mode
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs, undelfs
With builtin Editor
Using system-installed S-lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support: as default
With support for background operations
Using locale "POSIX" (from environment variable LC_ALL)