I recently installed Edgy in a VMware Server 1.01 VM at work, and discovered that because it comes with Xorg 7.1.1, the vmmouse driver that gets included with the tools package doesn't get installed as part of the tools install.
But it turns out the Xorg 7.0.0 version that we do package works fine with Edgy's Xorg. All you have to do is, copy vmware-tools-distrib/lib/configurator/XOrg/7.0/vmmouse_drv.o to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/ and then in your /etc/xorg.conf, load the "vmmouse" driver instead of the "mouse" driver (don't forget to restart your X session) and that should do the trick.
Comments (3)
This is a great tip. Thank you very much for documenting this!
Posted by none | March 11, 2007 1:44 AM
Posted on March 11, 2007 01:44
Thank you very much for documenting this!
Posted by detlef | June 23, 2007 12:47 PM
Posted on June 23, 2007 12:47
Worked like a charm on my Linux Ubuntu Edgy using Vmware Workstation 6.0.1.
Thanks, you made my day! Was getting mad at my mouse :-)
Posted by Misterdom | May 19, 2008 8:49 AM
Posted on May 19, 2008 08:49