Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Denis Leroy wrote: >> Was trying to get a trace from the hang, but now I'm having problems >> reproducing the bug. I might have misdiagnosed the libicu cause. Sorry >> for the confusion, things are working better now both with F-9 and >> rawhide. dkms on poolshark.org is updated with some packaging fixes. Not >> sure what happened, still looking into it. > > Denis, > > Thanks very much. I rebuilt the latest dkms rpm on my Fedora 9 VM. It > installed > fine and in GNOME I was able to drag over a PNG file without any trouble, and > the "tools are not installed" message is gone. However, I still have > to click inside > the window to get a mouse (using either X11 or gpm) which it sounds like > you're working on. I'd be happy to test again on Fedora 9 running in > Fusion 2 beta when needed. Adar: I turned on logging, but I'm guessing you > don't need it anymore. >
Joshua, the mouse problem is not an open-vm-tools issue. It's the xorg vmmouse driver that's broken in XOrg 7.3. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434807 There is a workaround however. You'll have to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file manually (or with the system-config-display tool), and add a mouse section to force the vmmouse driver to load: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "vmmouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" EndSection And add the following lines inside the "ServerLayout" section: Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
