From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Apr 3 0:39: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [170.1.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5E937BA82 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 00:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from icarus.kfu.com (icarus.kfu.com [170.1.70.17]) by quack.kfu.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA39243; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 00:38:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com by icarus.kfu.com with ESMTP (8.9.3//ident-1.0) id AAA07478; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 00:38:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38E84A6E.8BF50AB@quack.kfu.com> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 00:38:23 -0700 From: Nick Sayer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Emulation Cc: Johan Larsson Subject: Re: Vmware 1.1? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Johan Larsson wrote: > > But why does it says it uses a sysmouse? I used sysmouse when i installed > vmware, but i changed it after it complaining about that full screen mode > was disabled. > > Johan If you never use full screen mode (which you cannot do under FreeBSD), then vmware doesn't actually care what the mouse configuration panel says, as it merely uses the X server's pointer. The only reason that config screen exists is to supply a mouse to text screen apps that may run in full-screen mode (or without Windows at all), which vmware does by using a real vty device (which, again, the Linuxulator can't do). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message