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I had a Gnome 3.14 machine on VMware Fusion running fine, using Open-VM-Tools.
After upgrading to 3.16 yesterday the mouse (pointer) does not respond anymore. Just stuck on a default position. The only thing I saw being upgraded were all the gnome packages. No other major kernel or X11 related things as far as I remember.
Up till now, neither Google nor journalctl have given me clues about cause or solution. The only thing I find intriguing is, that /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is empty. I never bothered with any X11 .conf file or directory, as things just did work, but it's the only thing 'strange' I find apart from a not-working-mouseinput.
Does anyone experience similar issues? Does anyone have a clue where I should (start) look(ing)?
Thanks for reading my post,
Kind regards,
Martin
journalctl messages at boot, concerning mouse stuff...
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse (/dev/input/mouse1)
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) VMWARE(0): VMMouseUnInit
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (EE) PreInit returned 2 for "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: always reports core events
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) Using input driver 'vmmouse' for 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse'
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) VMWARE(0): VMMOUSE module was loaded
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 21.0
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: compiled for 1.16.0, module version = 13.0.0
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) Module vmmouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) LoadModule: "vmmouse"
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "vmmouse"
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
apr 10 14:45:52 archie /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[573]: (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse (/dev/input/event4)Last edited by RadioGnome1971 (2015-04-11 12:43:56)
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Same here.. Tried to downgrade the Kernel from 3.19.x to 3.18.x, reinstalling "xf86-input-vmmouse", or even "xf86-input-synaptics", disabled "gaming mouse optimization" in Fusion.. no luck.
I'm running VMware Fusion 7.1.1 on OSX 10.10.3.
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Yeah, I just noticed this as well. After much trial and error I finally got my mouse to sort-of work by removing the `xf86-input-vmmouse` package. The pointer moves now, but it's not at all as smooth as it used to be, presumably due to the lack of driver. Perhaps that driver needs to be updated? I have no idea.
BTW my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d is empty as well, I think that's only if you're customizing it yourself, otherwise the default configuration/"system-wide" is in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. If you have the `xf86-input-vmmouse` package install you'll see a file named `50-vmmouse.conf` in there for example.
EDIT: The mouse is _very_ erratic without the driver, it seems. Auto-grab won't work for me, and clicking to get focus sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It also seems like the driver is necessary to enable the use of the unity feature, because whenever I try to move a window when in unity mode it keeps trying to do the expose effect instead.
EDIT2: I noticed there is a newer driver version that was released on April 8th, but installing it didn't seem to help in any way.
Last edited by blaenk (2015-04-10 23:31:48)
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So I checked the logs and realized that the vmmouse driver was failing during xorg initialization due to a permissions issue. Sure enough, the wiki page mentions this [1]. After making that change, it works fine again with either the current stable driver version or the newer one I installed!
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This indeed fixes the issue.
Thanks a bunch, blaenk..
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You're welcome!
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Yes... works.. Thanks blaenk.
Sorry for neglecting this post a little. Unexpected family obligations.
Kind regards, Martin
p.s. How do I mark a post as solved?
Last edited by RadioGnome1971 (2015-04-11 12:45:27)
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