Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem

[Sam Lawrance]

On 10/07/2007, at 11:53 AM, Webster, Andrew wrote:

> Howdy,
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> I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just  
> installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an  
> existing system, BUT I’ve run into a problem…
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> While running VMWare Server 1.0.3 with FreeBSD 6.2-p5 and Xorg 7.2,  
> the mouse pointer behaves very oddly.
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> The pointer appears in the wrong place on the screen for where the  
> system actually thinks that it is.
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> I’m using the vmmouse driver part of the Xorg system, as the  
> regular mouse driver doesn’t appear to work at all, unless some  
> settings are amiss.
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> I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/ 
> out of the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes.
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> Has anyone experienced similar problems and/ or know of a fix for  
> this?
>

Andrew,

I just set up VMWare Fusion with FreeBSD and have a problem that  
might be related.  Ascii art time:
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The pointer appears normally on the screen.  However, clicking around  
the screen does not work except in a small area in the top left  
corner.  Moving the mouse within this tiny corner seems to scale up  
and operate on the entire screen.  Eg. if I click and drag across the  
tiny corner, I can see the selection appear across the entire desktop.

Is this similar to your issue?  Did you find a resolution?

Cheers
Sam