On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 09:34:48PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > This is probably *too_far* off-topic for this list to get any > >useful replies, but I'll ask anyway, both because I'm subscribed > >here and because a more-appropriate list is not obvious to me. > > > > In qemu I'm running FreeBSD-10.1 (x86_64) to test how my texlive > >test scripts work there (blame systemd - the more it concentrates on > >"only linux", the more I'm interested in what might be similar > >systems). Unfortunately, although I've installed xfce, Xorg, and > >texlive via the binary 'pkg' system [ to my surprise, xfce did not > >pull in all of Xorg, in particular I did not have 'startx' ], I > >cannot get a working mouse on the desktop. That somewhat limits my > >attempts to read the PDFs I've created, except by scp'ing them back > >to a linux system. > > > > So far, I've added hal (!) to the things which get started (that is > >_so_ old), as well as dbus, and installed vmmouse - but none of that > >has made the slightest difference, in qemu's desktop only the > >keyboard works. Unfortunately, my google foo for this is poor, all > >I can find are links for running qemu _on_ FreeBSD. Any suggestions, > >please ? > > Can you get gpm to work from a terminal? In Linux, you have to enable the > right drivers (e.g. CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE) for Xorg in the kernel. I have no > idea how to check that in FreeBSD. > For what I'm doing, I don't need a mouse in a tty under qemu (the old "problems pasting between client and host" issue). I just need to be able to move the mouse in a desktop, such as xfce, and to be able to click on buttons or the desktop (to get a menu). I don't think that having a mouse in a terminal is likely to help with having a working mouse on the desktop, or am I overlooking something ?
Certainly, there was a setting somewhere for a tty mouse, but I turned it off as likely to be a waste of cycles (and no, I don't think it is gpm, just a similar thing - this is a BSD). OK, maybe I'll try that [ moused_enable="YES" ]. FWIW, I get an Xorg log message about hotplugging being turned on,devices using 'kbd'. 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled - but that appears to be normal, and the keyboard does seem to work (well, the enter key works!). ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
