KDE4 under VMWARE: keyboard and mouse don't work

[nhanquy]

On a XP machine, I have vmware player installed and have freebsb8.0/kde4 installed:

On the /ect/rc.conf I have added:

hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
local_startup="${local_startup} /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d"
kdm4_enable="YES"


and on ~/.xinitrc:

PATH=/usr/local/kde4/bin:$PATH
export PATH
startkde4


If I boot freebsd; it will go to kdm and it won't accept keyboard or mouse input.

1. So what is wrong here? What should I have done?
Note that my /etc/ttys does not have this line:

ttyv8 "/usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure


2. How do I get out to another window? (no keyboard input :( - And no where from vmware
I could send ALT+F1 as input, for example!)

[SirDice]

The ~/.xinitrc file isn't used if you use KDM. Boot to single user mode and remove the kdm4_enable option in rc.conf. Fix your keyboard and mouse first, then enable KDM.

IIRC VMWare emulates a PS/2 mouse and keyboard, regardless of what's connected to the host. For the mouse add to /etc/rc.conf:


moused_enable="YES"


Make sure mouse and keyboard work before starting X.

[nhanquy]

#SirDice : Thanks! But how do I modify /etc/rc.conf in single user mode? It seem no editor and the file is read-only (I tried to use mv ...)

[nhanquy]

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5860

found it ! thanks again ! ( so I don't have to re-install freebsd )

But still I could not make keyboard and mouse work under vmware.
Go gnome !

[nexy_sm]

moused_enable="YES" works fine for me. i am using vmware workstation under Dell Inspiron 1501, now I have working KDE. But now is the problem because I don't have internet under KDE :(