From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 15 23:50:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F150A890 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:50:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A1CCD2EB5 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:50:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s5FNntLH095185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:49:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id s5FNnrBh095182; Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:49:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:49:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Chris Maness Subject: Re: Virtual Box Mouse? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:49:55 -0600 (MDT) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:50:47 -0000 On Sun, 15 Jun 2014, Chris Maness wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Chris Maness wrote: >> >>> I am running Vbox on my Mac running 10.9, and FreeBSD is running fine >>> except the mouse does not work. I have looked up some old threads, >>> but there hints sound dated and did not work. >>> >>> Any suggestions are welcome. >> >> >> Install emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions on the FreeBSD VM. Then either >> remove any xorg.conf in it so that X can autodetect the mouse, or modify it >> like this: >> >> Section "ServerLayout" >> Identifier "whatever" >> InputDevice "Mouse1" >> EndSection >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Mouse1" >> Driver "vboxmouse" >> EndSection > > Warren, where would I find this file? virtualbox-ose-additions is a port. It is in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions.