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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:58:52 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Anders Jensen-Waud <anders@jensenwaud.com>
Cc:        Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, kpneal@pobox.com
Subject:   Re: Virtual Box Mouse?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1406151756440.95181@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140615231128.GA49715@192-168-1-10.tpgi.com.au>
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Anders Jensen-Waud wrote:

> If /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't exist, you can generate one by running 'X
> -configure' as root. This will generate a new file called xorg.conf.new,
> which you can, if it runs successfully for your hardware, copy to
> /etc/X11 to make it permanently available for all users on the machine.

Yes.  However, I recommend *not* generating a full xorg.conf. 
Particularly for a VirtualBox VM, it is not needed and prevents 
autoconfiguration.  The section shown here is all that is needed.

>>>> Section "ServerLayout"
>>>>         Identifier "whatever"
>>>>         InputDevice "Mouse1"
>>>> EndSection
>>>>
>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>>         Identifier "Mouse1"
>>>>         Driver "vboxmouse"
>>>> EndSection



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