Mouse disorder with F9 inside
Ed Gurski
ed at gurski.com
Tue May 20 12:52:58 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 06:37 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Forcey <forcey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Forcey <forcey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I just upgraded my F8 installation in VMWare to F9 with yum, but my
> >> mouse pointer is out of order now. The actual position it points to is
> >> not under the cursor - I have to press ctrl to show the position in
> >> order to click. The actual position moves about 2x as quick as the
> >> cursor moves. I tried to reinstall vmware tools, but it still doesn't
> >> work. Do you have any solution to that?
> > Here's my mouse part of xorg.conf:
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "VMMouse"
> > Driver "vmmouse"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> > EndSection
> >
> > I tried to use xorg.conf.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall, but it still does not work.
> >
>
> The problem is resolved. Actually the release notes have mentioned this:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Desktop.html#vmmouse-driver
>
> 10.10. vmmouse Driver
>
> Due to a bug in the shipping xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse driver, the mouse
> position may not be correctly positioned on a virtual machine guest's
> display. As a workaround until an update, add Option NoAutoAddDevices
> to the ServerFlags section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the guest machine.
> Create the section if necessary:
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "NoAutoAddDevices"
> EndSection
>
Thanks for the info. This also solved my problem.
I assume we need to remove this once the X11 update has been applied?
Thanks again
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Ed Gurski
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