Re: [9fans] Teleporting Mouse in VMWare Fusion 1.1.3

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@gnu.org>]

Hi Andrey,

Thanks for the response!

On 24 Sep 2008, at 00:09, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I've been trying to install the plan9.iso into VMWare Fusion on my
>> mac.  I
>> see from the list archives that other people have been experiencing
>> the odd
>> mouse pointer teleportation issue I've been suffering.  Does anyone
>> know
>> what is causing this, or how to fix it?
>>
>> I suspect the vmware drivers in plan9 have bit rotted slightly.  If
>> it's too
>> much work to fix them, is there any way to at least turn off
>> explicit vmware
>> drivers in plan9 and see whether I'm right?
>
> if you moved the mouse during rio startup you may cause rio to be out
> of sync with the values from the mouse driver. there is a reset
> command in the driver which causes this behaviour to stop. if you have
> a window open "echo reset > /dev/mousectl" sometimes helps. rebooting
> and keeping the hands off the mouse while rio is booting should make
> it work (fingers crossed :)

I'm pretty sure I didn't move the mouse during boot, but I'll definitely
give the /dev/mousectl reset a try.

Unfortunately, vmware gets a bit antsy if you try to run multiple
versions
without rebooting inbetween, and I have some processes running that I
can't
stop tonight.  I'll report back on whether a careful 'hands-off-mouse'
rio
boot prevents the problem tomorrow.

Cheers,
	Gary
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