From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 15:24:32 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 E993CAD5 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.seidata.com (mail.seidata.com [IPv6:2607:ff40::10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97AD12C77 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from prometheus (prometheus.seidata.com [IPv6:2607:ff40:1001::3:1415]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.seidata.com (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s5GFOSK1072658 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:24:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@rsle.net) Message-ID: <539F0C27.50301@rsle.net> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:24:23 -0400 From: "R. Scott Evans" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual Box Mouse? References: <20140615220519.GA91726@neutralgood.org> <20140615231128.GA49715@192-168-1-10.tpgi.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1, HELO_NO_DOMAIN,TW_XF autolearn=disabled version=3.4.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on milter.seidata.com X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.1 at mailer.seidata.com X-Virus-Status: Clean 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: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:24:33 -0000 On 06/16/14 10:43, Chris Maness wrote: >> [Please do not top-post, it makes responding more difficult.] >> > > Sorry, I forget I have to hit the ellipsis dots in gmail to see the rest. > >> >>> I can't tell where it is logging to now. It was logging to the usual >>> place, but when I do a #tail -f log there is no change when I start >>> the server. I have dbus and hal in my rc.conf. >> >> >> Sorry, it's hard to tell what you are talking about. The X log defaults to >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log. >> > > Yep, no changes there with #tail -f when I start the server. > >> >> >>> The modules are loaded, and when I added those lines to a empty >>> configuration line I just get a blank black screen. >> >> >> What modules? >> > > The vbox kernel modules. > >> >> (In general, it's preferred to respond to the list also. Others may have >> more or different experience, or may benefit from the information.) > > Sorry. > > Thanks, > Chris The question that has yet to be asked... are we talking about enabling the mouse in X windows or in console? For console all you need is 'moused_enable="YES"' in your /etc/rc.conf. Enabling it across all local terminals doesn't work well for me as the Mac's F keys don't work (for me) in VirtualBox. For X windows, all I added was the hald_enable=YES and dbus_enable=YES to my /etc/rc.conf. I did not need to install virtualbox additions or any xorg.conf. I just did a fresh install (via pkg) of xorg & xfce4 on a FreeBSD 10-R-p4 amd64 install in vbox on my mid 2011 iMac running 10.9.3 to verify this. -scott