FreeBSD 13.1 and mouse support

[jloc0]

For those who don't know, FreeBSD runs great on fusion preview and has been the only OS I've had much success with since the preview existed. Recently, I decided I wanted to see how FBSD's GNOME support was, so I started up a new vm and installed everything. Switched from wayland to Xorg and I can get gdm and gnome-session going but no matter what I do, there's no mouse. The packages are all installed, and I get nothing. I have mouse enabled in rc.conf, but when testing with bsdconfig, it never works on any choices. I've seen online you need to make a Xconfig file and if I do that, x11 stops running on a reboot. With no Xconfig, gdm and gnome-session work, but again, no mouse. I've tried running 'vmware-user' when logged into GNOME and still nothing.

I'm at a loss, if anyone has some advice, I'd love to hear it.

[k_ronny · Accepted solution]

You can try to load the USB mouse driver in "/boot/loader.conf":

ums_load="YES"

[jloc0]

Wow, thank you so much! It was that easy!

[jloc0]

Well mouse is working great now, but I can't get vmtoolsd to work, desktop always stays at 1064x768, I get no options or the desktop size matching like vmware has always done. open-vm-tools is installed, I've enabled a bunch of stuff in rc.conf but it doesn't seem to help. I'll look at it again tomorrow with fresh eyes.

[k_ronny · Accepted solution]

oh, at the moment freebsd (efifb) uses the resolution specified by the EFI environment. Try adding to your "/boot/loader.conf":

efi_max_resolution="1920x1200"

But not every resolution is available.

[jloc0]

Interesting, having messed around with resolutions on real hardware with that I had thought there wasn't modes that high available through the loader. Interesting. And again, thank you, that works excellently!