Jumpy mouse
Ian Gilmour
I'm running Vmware for Linux (2.0.3 build 799) and installed under a
Mandrake 7.1 Host, with Windows-NT 4.0 as the guest O/S.
I'm very impressed. Everything installed fine and I can now use network
printer, access local/remote filesystems, etc. from within the guest O/S.
My only problem is that frequently the mouse (IntelliMouse PS/2) starts
jumping around as I move it across the screen. So much so that it becomes
really hard to position it correctly over buttons/icons.
Is this a known problem, with a known solution ? If so I'd be grateful if
someone could tell me the fix or point me at the relevant FAQ.
thanks,
Ian
Todd Taylor
Are you using KDE? The only way I've been able to fix the
jumpy mouse is to switch to Gnome/Enlightenment (my host
is Red Hat 6.2).
I've heard reports that switching to a serial mouse would fix
the problem---for me it didn't.
--Todd
--
Z. Todd Taylor
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Todd....@pnl.gov
Why is it good to be cool, but bad to be not-so-hot?
Jim Bennett
First, is there a gpm daemon running? If so, try killing
it and see if that helps.
Second, in the VMware tools, there are options for
automatically grabbing and ungrabbing the mouse. Try
disabling these options and see if it helps.
If you try these things out, I'd appreciate it if you
would post your experiences back to this news group.
Several other people have reported similar problems,
and it would be nice to understand what is going on.
Jim
Ian Gilmour
Here's a bit more info...
System 700MHz Athalon 256M Ram
Host Mandrake 7.1 Linux (running KDE)
Guest O/S Windows NT 4.0.1381 [96M allocated to guest o/s]
Tried so far,
disabling gpm - made no noticable difference.
disabling "grab on mouse click" - not tried yet.
swapping from kde to gnome - made no noticable difference.
toggling between full screen a window - made no noticable difference.
However what I have noticed is that when the mouse is jumping around (during
normal mouse movement), if I change the guest o/s display parameters from
1024x768 to 800x600 the problem seems to go away (at least for a while).
When it reappears, swapping back to 1024x768 seems to improve it again. Just
swapping into and out of 1024x768 doesn't improve it - I seem to have to
wait for the problem to reappear at the current resolution.
Host display is running at 1152x864x24bit color.
Note this is only after ~1 hour of investigating the problem, so may be I'm
fooling myself in to thinking I can see a pattern here. I'll try
experimenting further after I've got some real work done. But I'd be
interested to know if other suffers see a similar effect. If they do then I
suspect it'll point the wat to the root cause of the problem.
cheers,
Ian
Jim Bennett <ben...@vmware.com> wrote in message
news:3A64964C...@vmware.com...
Terry Froy
I reported this exact same issue to VMware only last week; apparently it is
a 'known problem' - it doesn't matter if your X server if XFree86 4.0.x or
3.3.x - the bug still manifests itself; the only workaround I have found is
to run an elderly MS Intellimouse from one of my serial ports and tell
VMware to use that instead (completely independent from the host O/S;
emulated serial port, etc.... in other words, all the unsupported features
of your mouse start working *grin*).
However, I do not think it is a bug in the mouse-handling code; you will
notice that the problem does not manifest itself in an operating system that
isn't using the video driver supplied with the VMware Tools (provided you
are running full-screen VGA) - personally I think it is an internal problem
with the video driver miscalculating the resolution/dpi of the mouse as used
by the host O/S; and this is what is causing the mouse to act 'jittery'.
Incidentally, I don't remember having this problem on Red Hat 6.1 using
VMware 1.x (Guest O/S: Windows 95)... would any of the VMware developers who
read this group care to elaborate what changed with regards the
mouse-handling code between 1.x and 2.x ?
Regards,
Terry
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
"Ian Gilmour" <ian.g...@ffei.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9447c9$2fe$1...@london.vmware.com...
Ian Gilmour
Vmware support have just come back with the solution to my jumping mouse
problem and it works, so I thought I'd share it with the rest of you.
In my Windows NT guest O/S (Host - Mandrake 7.1) I had 2 VMWare toolbox
icon's on the taskbar. I hadn't even noticed.
I deleted 1 and the problem vanished (the system seems to have got a lot
more responsive at the same time).
I'd be interested to know if this is the cause of the problem for others out
there.
Maybe it should appear on the troubleshooting page of the vmware website?
Score one to vmware support.
cheers,
Ian Gilmour (a now contented vmware user)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sup...@vmware.com [mailto:sup...@vmware.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:11 PM
> To: ian.g...@ffei.co.uk
> Cc: sup...@vmware.com
> Subject: re: VMware Incident 20162, Running / Misc
>
>
>
>
> Dear Ian Gilmour,
>
> Thank you for your report.
> Apperentl, based on the log entries, the VMware Tools are
> loaded twice.
> Would you please verify that there is one entry only in the
> "All User's Startup Folder". Make sure that no other Startup
> folders have a Tools shortcut in it (e.g. current user's
> startup folder.
>
> If there is only one Tools being autostarted, please try
> experimenting with unloading the tools by right clicking its
> icon in the system tray then select Exit.
>
> Please let me know if any of the above makes any difference.
> I hope to hear from you by Jan 26th.
>
> Best Regards,
> Mostafa
> VMware Customer Service
>
>
>
>
Terry Froy <t...@poopoo.spilsby.net> wrote in message
news:9452t9$h3a$1...@london.vmware.com...
Terry Froy
Changing my X server solved my problem; XFree86 4.01 with Mandrake 7.2
seemed to be the culprit, either upgrading to XFree86 4.02 or downgrading to
XFree86 3.3.6 fixed the mouse issue.
The .DSK file which contained my guest O/S (Windows 2000 Professional)
remained the same throughout the X server upgrade/downgrade; so the problem
of two running instances of VMware Tools wouldn't have applied in this case.
Regards,
Terry
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
"Ian Gilmour" <ian.g...@ffei.co.uk> wrote in message
news:94ms88$nfv$1...@london.vmware.com...