We didn't file a claim with insurance on this computer because it was purchased in a weird fashion. My wife is an astronomer, and at the end of the year (whenever it was) her boss told her that they actually had some leftover money and asked if she wanted a new computer. Half of her salary is paid from a different program, not directly from the observatory, so I suggested talking to her other boss and maybe having the two bosses go in halfsies on the new computer, which they did. This was probably 4 years ago.
About 2 years ago she bought a new MBP and this MBP was semi-retired. It was still used occasionally, she had some projects where two laptops used together was really useful. When the tree came through the roof, it was directly over her head. She got hit by the ceiling, but our metal roof decelerated the tree enough that I am not a widower today. This happened almost a year ago. The MBP that was in her lap was relatively undamaged, it somehow got a piece of insulation dust under a key. We got it checked out and it's been fine.
I was sitting next to her. Lightning struck a tree a good 10-15 yards behind our house and it exploded. The bigger chunk hit our propane tank and bounced, the one that went through our roof was 25' long and 75 lbs a foot. We were VERY fortunate to get only some inhalation damage and some minor bumps and abrasions. The sad thing was that we had a new dog, we'd only had him for a month a that point, and prior to that he was not afraid of thunderstorms. Needless to say he's no longer fearless.
Anyway, back to my problem. I'd like to take it to an Apple store for evaluation, but the closest is a two hour drive which we just don't make casually. When I entered @NBAR's code, this is the result:
Last login: Thu Aug 15 15:20:34 on ttys001
Macintosh-5:~ Russet$ sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch; sudo touch /system/library/extensions ; exit
Password:
(kernel) Can't unload kext com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch; classes have instances:
(kernel) Kext com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch class AppleUSBMultitouchDriver has 3 instances.
Failed to unload com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch - (libkern/kext) kext is in use or retained (cannot unload).
logout
[Process completed]
Running his second code produced this list:
Last login: Fri Aug 9 08:10:29 on ttys000
Macintosh-5:~ Russet$ kextstat -kl | awk '{print $6}'
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily
com.apple.driver.DiskImages
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch
com.apple.security.quarantine
com.apple.security.sandbox
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM
com.apple.driver.NVSMU
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily
com.apple.nvenet
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib
com.apple.BootCache
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController
com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport
com.apple.NVDAResman
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal
com.apple.GeForce
com.apple.filesystems.autofs
com.apple.filesystems.ntfs
com.parallels.kext.ConnectUSB
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction
com.apple.kext.AppleSMCLMU
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver
com.apple.driver.AGPM
com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothBNEPDriver
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor
Macintosh-5:~ Russet$
I should have mentioned that this particular box is running 10.6.8. The only way that I can get it to left-click properly is what I'm doing right now, using Screen Sharing from my iMac.
