Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:26:06 +1100 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Bob Finch <bob@nas.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg 7.2 and FreeBSD 6.2-p5 VMWARE vmmouse problem Message-ID: <DF51F551-BE25-44D0-A8A6-9EC5F51BC11E@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1199835084.952.18.camel@polaris.admcs.wwu.edu> References: <1199835084.952.18.camel@polaris.admcs.wwu.edu>
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On 09/01/2008, at 10:31 AM, Bob Finch wrote:
> On 10/10/2007, at 17:00:22, Sam Lawrance wrote:
>> On 10/07/2007, at 11:53 AM, Webster, Andrew wrote:
>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I was successfully able to get Xorg upgraded to 7.2 by just
>>> installing them from scratch as opposed to trying to upgrading an
>>> existing system, BUT I=92ve run into a problem=85
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> While running VMWare Server 1.0.3 with FreeBSD 6.2-p5 and Xorg 7.2,
>>> the mouse pointer behaves very oddly.
>>>
>>> The pointer appears in the wrong place on the screen for where the
>>> system actually thinks that it is.
>>>
>>> I=92m using the vmmouse driver part of the Xorg system, as the
>>> regular mouse driver doesn=92t appear to work at all, unless some
>>> settings are amiss.
>>>
>>> I really like the vmmouse drive because you can move the pointer in/
>>> out of the window as you do with regular windows guest OSes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone experienced similar problems and/ or know of a fix for
>>> this?
>>>
>>
>> Andrew,
>>
>> I just set up VMWare Fusion with FreeBSD and have a problem that
>> might be related. Ascii art time:
>> _____________
>> |_| |
>> | |
>> | |
>> |___________|
>>
>> The pointer appears normally on the screen. However, clicking around
>> the screen does not work except in a small area in the top left
>> corner. Moving the mouse within this tiny corner seems to scale up
>> and operate on the entire screen. Eg. if I click and drag across the
>> tiny corner, I can see the selection appear across the entire =20
>> desktop.
>>
>> Is this similar to your issue? Did you find a resolution?
>
> Sam,
>
> I ran into this problem on FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 with Xorg 7.3 using the
> VMWare mouse driver (vmmouse).
>
> Apparently, X server 1.4.0 in Xorg 7.3 no longer calls the =20
> conversion_proc
> function in the mouse driver. The VMWare mouse driver depends on that
> call to scale the mouse coordiates to the screen size.
>
> As a workaround, I fetched the x11-drivers/xf86-input-vmmouse port and
> patched src/vmmouse.c by hand before installing it:
>
> bob polaris[9]: diff -u orig/xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/=20
> vmmouse.c xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c
> --- orig/xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c 2007-09-25 =20
> 16:11:47.000000000 -0700
> +++ xf86-input-vmmouse-12.4.3/src/vmmouse.c 2008-01-08 =20
> 14:58:59.000000000 -0800
> @@ -964,8 +964,11 @@
> VMMOUSE_INPUT_DATA vmmouseInput;
> int ps2Buttons =3D 0;
> int numPackets;
> + VMMousePrivPtr mPriv;
> + double factorX, factorY;
>
> pMse =3D pInfo->private;
> + mPriv =3D pMse->mousePriv;
> while((numPackets =3D VMMouseClient_GetInput(&vmmouseInput))){
> if (numPackets =3D=3D VMMOUSE_ERROR) {
> VMMouseClient_Disable();
> @@ -990,6 +993,13 @@
> dy =3D vmmouseInput.Y;
> dz =3D (char)vmmouseInput.Z;
> dw =3D 0;
> +
> + /* X server 1.4.0 does not call VMMouseConvertProc() so we =20
> scale coordinates here */
> + factorX =3D ((double) screenInfo.screens[mPriv->screenNum]-=20
> >width) / (double) 65535;
> + factorY =3D ((double) screenInfo.screens[mPriv->screenNum]-=20
> >height) / (double) 65535;
> + dx =3D dx * factorX + 0.5;
> + dy =3D dy * factorY + 0.5;
> +
> /* post an event */
> pMse->PostEvent(pInfo, buttons, dx, dy, dz, dw);
> }
Oh wow, I owe you a beer!
Any idea why this does not affect everyone using vmware?
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