Troubles related to VMWare after upgrading Debian to Xorg v7

["Josep Serrano" <mylists@montblanc.homeip.net>]

Hello list.

Here some hints related to VMWare I found after upgrading a debian box to Xorg7 in a
hosted system.

If you download a package xserver-xorg-video-all it will install for you all video
drivers. Actually you just need the package xserver-xorg-video-vmware and you can
remove all other packages installed by the xserver-xorg-video-all. So fra it works
good.

Now if you want to use a VMWare mouse driver you don't find it in the list of
xserver-xorg-input-* packages. The quick fix is:

1- Install vmware tools if don't have it already.
2- cp /usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/XOrg/6.8.x/vmmouse_drv.o
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/.
3- Modify your xorg.conf to use the mouse driver 'vmmouse'.


Hope it helps.
Josep SERRANO