Re: hey Jim Adamthwaite, please check the clock/date on your computer...

Martin Blume wrote:
> What type of mouse do you have? PS/2 or USB?
> Regards
> Martin

Tried:
1. RS232/COM1 (ttys0) - steam mouse with rubber ball & coal chute,
2. PS/2 both with/without wheel,
3. USB Logitech optical wheel mouse with attractive flashing light.

This implies that it is not a hardware or low-level driver problem as they
use physically different parts of the motherboard, interrupts & presumably
different software modules.

2 PC's (different brand/model hardware) with installation done by 2 people
(with intentionally different understanding, skill & methodology) yield the
same result.

Control Center -> YaST2 Modules -> Hardware -> Mouse
always corrupts the mouse description area in the XF86Config file, requiring
manual restore from a backup copy.


procinfo returns:
<snip>

irq 0: 14194772 timer irq 14: 49653 ide0
irq 1: 24092 i8042 irq 15: 127417 ide1
irq 3: 3 irq169: 0 uhci_hcd
irq 4: 3 irq177: 0 uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd
irq 6: 8 irq185: 647923 uhci_hcd
irq 7: 0 parport0 irq193: 2 ehci_hcd
irq 8: 2 rtc irq201: 9937 Intel ICH5
irq 9: 1 acpi irq209: 579961 eth0
irq 12: 3

I am leaning towards demonic possession as an explanation. Faith healing by
the laying-on of hands sounds attractive.
Jim A.
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