David Fokkema wrote:
I have to evaluate VMWare for work, and I'm trying to get it to work on my laptop running Debian sid. So the host OS is sid. I had to evaluate a DVD containing a slackware distribution, and my mouse won't move. I created a new virtual machine and tried running Knoppix 3.4 from it, same problem.
The guest OS is detecting a mouse at /dev/psaux, PS/2 protocol but in X,
it won't move the cursor. Clicking the mouse _does_ work, but moving it
doesn't. Doing a `cat /dev/psaux' outputs nothing when I move the mouse.
The guess OS being, first, slackware, and then Knoppix?
It's been a while since I played with VMWare, but it seems that VMWare virtualized a lot of the hardware to a "standard", so that your real video card, be it a Matrox or an ATI or an S3Virge or whatever always gets seen by the guest OS as a "VMWare-flavored-nVidia" (or whatever VMWare named the device). This may be the same with the mouse. Even though you may have a PS/2 protocol trackpad, VMWare may be reporting it to the guest OS as a "Joe's Knuckle-Saver Optical MouseSystem Mouse", in which case the guest OS is mis-reading the mouse type.
Maybe you should try plugging in an external mouse?
Is gpm part of the equation?
Sorry I don't have any real suggestions, or recent experience with VMWare, but thought I'd toss out these comments.
-- Kent
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