I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p16 with packages and ports up to date, under VMWare Workstation 10.0.03 on Windows 7 x64 SP1.
The system was working fine for months with emulators/open-vm-tools (from ports), but my packages were quite out of date and did a
My desktop is XFCE4.
I rebuilt and reinstalled open-vm-tools from ports and that didn't help.
Usually when I clicked in the FreeBSD VM, the cursor will snap to the right and another click fixes it, but sometimes it takes a number of clicks for the mouse to behave.
I tried using Driver vmmouse in xorg.conf, didn't help. Here's my xorg.conf, which works fine with multiple monitors, etc - no problems with video, just mouse:
xorg.conf:
Any ideas? Thanks.
Dave
The system was working fine for months with emulators/open-vm-tools (from ports), but my packages were quite out of date and did a
pkg upgrade, and that worked except my mouse integration is broken and it's fairly annoying. The mouse works but it's not seamless between Windows and FreeBSD.My desktop is XFCE4.
I rebuilt and reinstalled open-vm-tools from ports and that didn't help.
Usually when I clicked in the FreeBSD VM, the cursor will snap to the right and another click fixes it, but sometimes it takes a number of clicks for the mouse to behave.
I tried using Driver vmmouse in xorg.conf, didn't help. Here's my xorg.conf, which works fine with multiple monitors, etc - no problems with video, just mouse:
xorg.conf:
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vmware"
VendorName "VMware"
BoardName "SVGA II Adapter"
BusID "PCI:0:15:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "2400x1000"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Any ideas? Thanks.
Dave
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