Mouse problems with SuSe 9.1 Personal

["Mike Miller" <mikemil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I am fairly new to Linux and have posted this problem to several forums 
with no success.  After booting up, into the GUI, the mouse intermittently 
goes crazy.  It jumps around the screen, opens/closes windows, etc.  
Sometimes the escape button helps but the system is totally unusable in the 
current state.  I will try to provide as much data as possible but had to 
create this posting from Windows because getting the file contents 
(XF86Config and /var/log/XFree86.0.log) was impossible (for me) using the 
linux system.

I am using a PS/2 mouse.  The XF86Config:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "ButtonNumber" "2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
EndSection

I found several postings related to gpm, and so based on a comment in one of 
the SuSe forums, I did a chmod 644 on the gpm program, in an attempt to keep 
it from starting/running.  Previously, I also switched out of the gui 
(ctl+alt+F1) and stopped the gpm process, went back to the gui (ctl+alt+f7) 
and still encountered the same problem.

I viewed the /var/log/XFree86.0.log and it says that the version number is 
4.3.99 (4.4.0 RC2) .

Any suggestions?

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