Slow Mouse movement in any Linux VM

[slappy83]

One any linux distro that I load I get extremely slow mouse movement. I've tried everything from Ubuntu to Fedora core 4 to 7. But at the same time any WinOS that I load works perfectly. I've already tried upping the allowed memory to the linuxVM, and i've turn the mouse speed all the way up in KDE/GNOME. And it been doing it for the past 3 releases of Fusion.

I'm running a MAC Mini with 2Gb of mem, an external 300Gb HD, and a 1.66 intel core duo.

Thanks

[Andreas_Masur]

You did install the VMware Tools?

Ciao, Andreas

[admin]

Do you have VMware Tools installed? If you run vmware-toolbox, what version does it say?

[slappy83]

Sure did. It seemed to take care of my video and the active borders, but thats it.

[Andreas_Masur]

Sure did. It seemed to take care of my video and the

active borders, but thats it.

Okay...as Eric already said....what is the version number...

Ciao, Andreas

[PhLy]

Recent Xorg release (7.2) include all the vmware drivers you need, as they now are open source. These drivers are no longer provided by vmware-tools which feature only < 7.2 drivers.

But there is a small bug in vmware-config-tools: it makes a well suited xorg.conf only for the display, not for the mouse !

Here is the diff with the good[/b] xorg.conf

\----

---

\--- xorg.conf 2007-06-15 16:26:13.037881387 +0000

\+++ xorg.conf.AfterVMwareToolsInstall 2007-06-15 16:24:34.252251914 +0000

@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@

1. Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"

\- Driver "vmmouse"

+ Driver "mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Option "Buttons" "3"

\----

---

As you can see, only add the 2 magic letters "vm" to the mouse driver.

PhLy