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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:39:16 -0400
From:      "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>
To:        John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysmouse type of mouse not supported?
Message-ID:  <20000728103915.A274@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
In-Reply-To: <14720.18703.90304.563651@whale.home-net>; from jjreynold@home.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 07:37:03AM -0700
References:  <001301bff7f2$613e91a0$02fda8c0@visiontechdml.com> <14720.18703.90304.563651@whale.home-net>

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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 07:37:03AM -0700, John Reynolds wrote:
> 
> [ On Thursday, July 27, Vladimir Silyaev wrote: ]
> > You should change mouse type in the VMware mouse configuration panel from
> > auto, to ps/2. I think that in the FreeBSD related docs has something about
> > that issue.
> > 
> > It's because Linux VMware doesn't know nothing about sysmouse mouse type, so
> > it's complained about that.
> > 
> 
> Ok, I tried that and made sure that I (not only root) had permissions to write
> to /dev/psm0 (just in case) and now i get:
> 
>   Cannot open host mouse device "/dev/psm0". Device of resource busy. Unable to
>   open hose mouse device for full-screen VGA. Full-screen VGA will not be
>   available. 
> 
> Is this because I'm not running moused?
Nope, it's because you were have to change a mouse type, but not a mouse device
file. 

--
Vladimir 


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