[lug] SuSE v9.0 mouse strangeness

[Gary Hodges]

A colleague has v9.0 installed and has experienced strange mouse 
behavior twice now.  She has a wireless trackball that is hooked into 
one of those boxes that allows two PCs to use one monitor, keyboard and 
mouse.  This set up worked fine with Red Hat 7.2.  I installed SuSE on 
her machine two days ago.  She is using KDE.

When the problem occurs the mouse pointer keeps warping back to the 
bottom left corner of the screen.  If you try to move the mouse away 
from the corner it will at some point warp back to the bottom left.  If 
you keep doing this you end up openning lots of windows.  Its like you 
might expect would happen if you repeatedly left clicked around the 
panel and start button while moving the mouse pointer around.  I was 
never able to move the mouse further than about mid-screen before it 
would warp back to the lower left.

If you're careful and go slowly, you can log off.  This "fixes" the problem.

Cheers,
Gary