Mouse freeze

For those who may have a mouse freeze problem, the following may be helpful.

System:
New V9.3 prof installation - no extras.

Description :
After using Yast2 via Control Center to set/change mouse hardware, the mouse
freezes & dies after several minutes, or logout & login, or screensaver
activation - whichever comes first.

The screen cursor is unresponsive to all mouse clicks and movements.

This problem occurs even if I change to an old "steam" RS232 mouse with a
rubber ball, running on the COM1/2 serial port.

Discussion:
It looks like Yast2 is adding unnecessary/wrong stuff to
the /etc/X11/XF86Config file.

********Original:
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

******* After using Yast2 to set new mouse type:
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Button number" "5" <<<<<<<<<<<
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" <<<<<<<<<<<
Option "Name" "Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Note 1 added line & 1 changed line.

Workaround:
I keep a clean backup of the original file section, and paste it back into
XF86Config file to restore mouse function. Of course it is tricky to do it
without a mouse via Alt-F1 & TAB keys, but at least it will work.

Hopefully this can be fixed by Mr SuSE.
Jim Adamthwaite.

Jim Adamthwaite wrote:

> For those who may have a mouse freeze problem, the following may be
> helpful.

<snip>

> Hopefully this can be fixed by Mr SuSE.

Go to nntp://support-forums.novell.com and subscribe to the suse groups.

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