Hi, I'm writing to -dev, because I am not sure that everybody interested is monitoring -book. The main "issue" about this driver is that the kernels 4.1 and above have an improved manager for th VMware mouse, so that: - xf86-input-vmmouse is not needed at all with those kernels. I've tested under qemu and VMware. - older versions of this driver conflict with those new kernels. This means that if you have a new kernel, you must have the new driver (but you don't need it...).
At a moment, I was inclined to remove the xf86-input-vmmouse driver completely from the book, because of the above, but there are two reasons to keep it: - obviously, not everybody is using a newer kernel yet. - less obviously, to use the kernel VMmouse driver, a few non trivial options have to be set in the kernel configuration. So now I propose to keep the driver, and to add a paragraph telling that this driver is not needed with newer kernel and giving the relevant kernel options. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
