Greetings,
I have a couple of questions - first, why isn't "Fedora" one of the "officially" supported linux distributions for Fusion 1.0? Fedora is fairly common and has been around for quite awhile, but slightly different than the various Red Hat distributions.
I was able to install VMware Fusion 1.0 (current version as of today 10/17/07) no problem and was also able to install Fedora 7 as the "guest" OS. VMware tools also installed, even though it had to compile the kernel module. Everything seems to work fine, except the scroll wheel on the mouse. I'm running OSX 10.4.10, on a Mac Pro laptop (intel core 2 duo processor w/ 2 gb memory) with a Logitech Bluetooth wheel mouse. I can scroll fine with the wheel under OSX, but not under fedora. The wheel operates as the center button just fine under both, and both the other buttons work fine under both OSs, it's just that the wheel won't scroll under Linux...
Thoughts? suggestions?
John
Try telling X how many buttons your mouse has. Under Debian Etch, the scroll wheel wasn't working for me, but adding "Buttons" and "ZAxisMapping" options to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and restarting X, fixed it for me. Here's the relevant section from my xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
According to the manpage, the default for ZAxisMapping is "4 5", but I found I needed to add that line for scrolling to work.
(Why five buttons? Three, plus one for "scroll up" and one for "scroll down")
What type of mouse is Fedora configured to use?
It's listed as a VMMouse in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. KDE seems to recognize it as a wheel mouse as I can set wheel scrolling properties, but it doesn't do any good... Wheel doesn't scroll under either KDE or GNOME and doesn't work for a normal user or root...
John
What Protocol is the vmmouse set to use? If "ps/2", try "imps/2" (and possibly restart X).
Ummm... in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, there is no protocol listed for the mouse..
John
Try telling X how many buttons your mouse has. Under Debian Etch, the scroll wheel wasn't working for me, but adding "Buttons" and "ZAxisMapping" options to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and restarting X, fixed it for me. Here's the relevant section from my xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "vmmouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
According to the manpage, the default for ZAxisMapping is "4 5", but I found I needed to add that line for scrolling to work.
(Why five buttons? Three, plus one for "scroll up" and one for "scroll down")
Thanks moggle, that did the trick!
John
Moggie's solution also worked for me -- scroll wheel was not working but now works as expected:
VMWare 6.0.2 build-59824 on Windows XP SP2
Fedora 7 (2.6.23.12-52.fc7)
Standard Dell 2-button mouse with scroll wheel
Absolutely great - works like a charm. Good one, moggie!
2.6.24.3-12.fc8 guest on WinXP / 6.0.3 build-80004
Works for me, too. Thanks a lot
VMWare 6.0.3 build-80004 on Windows Vista Host
Debian Etch Guest