[Evolution] Mouse not working with new install of 7.3

[Ralph Sanford <rsanford telusplanet net>]

Installed SuSE 7.3 on my desktop,though the X-server and mouse problems
made this a very lengthy install.  The X is working now but the mouse is
still a problem.  I had saved data and other files and did a clean
install of 7.3.

At this time if I boot directly to a graphical interface then the mouse
does not function.  I can use the keyboard to Tab around KDM and get to
a windowed environment, but without a mouse there is no reason to be
there. 

If I startup to a text - console interface and then use "startx" I go
directly to KDE and the mouse is working.  From a text - console typing
in "init 5" will go to KDM and the mouse is working.  This is functional
but not as convenient as loading directly to the GUI. And this is
definitely not the computer to show windows users how easy linux is to
use.

Any suggestions as to what needs to be tweaked, modified or removed so
that this computer can boot directly to KDM?  Switching between init 3
and init 5 shows that GPM is added and removed, however I do not want to
rush in and remove a utility (such as GPM) until I know that it is safe
to do so.  Should this be switched off?

This computer has been a problem install of X since I got started at
SuSE 6.2.  Alternatively the problem has appeared to be motherboard
BIOS, video card,or  mouse.  The install have always been without X and
then use yast or sax to get X working.  This install of 7.3 had just
been harder than previous installs.  So far I have tried configuring
with yast, yast2, sax, sax2 and xf86config.  I have used several of the
mouse protocol (ps/2 using psaux, worked in the past and is in place
right now), changed the video settings and tried booting with and
without frame buffers (matrox video card). I could not find a solution
in the reference or configuration manuals.  Also no solution on the SuSE
database. 

This is an out of the box clean install of SuSE 7.3, and not a hand
rolled kernel.  


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