Bug 398808

Summary:	xorg.conf mouse setting wrong on virtual vmware machine
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Dr. Markus Ammer <markus.webmail>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description Dr. Markus Ammer 2008-06-10 11:17:27 UTC

--- /etc/X11/xorg.conf~ 2008-06-10 13:06:33.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/X11/xorg.conf  2008-06-10 13:06:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@


 Section "InputDevice"
-  Driver       "mouse"
+  Driver       "vmmouse"
   Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
   Option       "Buttons" "5"
   Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"


"mouse" works somewhat but "vmmouse" is the one which comes with vmware tools.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2008-06-10 11:37:54 UTC

But it doesn't work. Therefore it has been disabled again.

sax2.changes:
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Fri Mar 21 22:00:33 CET 2008 - sndirsch@suse.de

- disable-vmmouse.diff
  * no longer use vmmouse driver by default (bnc #372189) 




*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 372189 ***

Comment 2 Dr. Markus Ammer 2008-06-10 13:54:57 UTC

Sorry, to be more precise: "mouse" has been configured by sax2, but this renders a hardly usable gui on the vm. The vm window obviously has its own mouse settings with a much too fast mouse pointer, even with acceleration=1 on the guest. And the mouse pointer is grabbed in the kdm logon screen.

Therefore I have changed to "vmmouse" where the guest mouse pointer is seamlessly integrated in the host gui (SuSE 10.1). On my system (fresh install RC1) this setting works as expected.