Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> Yeah, that looks better to me. Do you actually need to do the probing in
> that case, or are there VMWare systems that will expose a PS/2 mouse
> port and not allow you to run vmmouse against it?
Yes, the active check is required - it's possible to configure a VM with
th
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:35:39AM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >
> > No it wasn't, I'm just blind. I think a better way of doing this would
> > be to make the callout conditional on there being a PCI device with the
> > vmware subsystem. Probing for a vmware mouse on e
Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> No it wasn't, I'm just blind. I think a better way of doing this would
> be to make the callout conditional on there being a PCI device with the
> vmware subsystem. Probing for a vmware mouse on every system that has a
> PS/2 port seems excessive.
Something more like th
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:50:42AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Hmm. The fdi seemed to be missing?
No it wasn't, I'm just blind. I think a better way of doing this would
be to make the callout conditional on there being a PCI device with the
vmware subsystem. Probing for a vmware mouse on ev
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:33:33PM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> The mouse appears as a regular PS/2 mouse and detecting that it's the
> special vmmouse
> a is done completely out of band; we can't change how this works for
> compatibility reasons
> so I've got to make do.
There's no possibil
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:33:33PM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> I've attached example fdi and callout script implementations (the
> vmmouse-detect
> binary that is referred to is debian/ubuntu specific but that can be folded
> into
> a hald-probe style binary or bundled elsewhere if desired)
>
Hi all,
I've finally found some time to investigate how to sort out how our (VMware's)
mouse
devices need to work with input hotplugging.
Our virtual usb mouse works fine with Xserver 1.5 and evdev 2.0.6 and input
hotplug works
correctly - the catch is purely on our end where we don't know whe
