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.
You can try to load the USB mouse driver in "/boot/loader.conf":
ums_load="YES"
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.
You can try to load the USB mouse driver in "/boot/loader.conf":
ums_load="YES"
Wow, thank you so much! It was that easy!
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.
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.
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!