What it seemed wrong in my case was the fact that yast2 would start the "choose mouse" screen at each reboot, mouse or no mouse. I unplugged the mouse, and, at each reboot, there's the stupid screen again.
That's right, I have the same situation.
I think this is a bug.
Probably, or too strong detection. I use following workaround: switch off hardware scan on each start (disabled hwscan). There is no HW changes on that machine, so... :-) -- Ivan Guštin, ivan@elin.hr, (098) 366-346 ELIN Elektronika i informatika, www.elin.hr, (052) 623-491 Lindarska cesta 1, 52000 Pazin -- Ovaj mail provjeren je antivirusnim programom ESET NOD32 prilikom prolaska kroz mail server. This mail has been scanned by antivirus software ESET NOD32 during passing through mail server.