Bug#333246: during configuration of XFree86 for VMwareTools '(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice' occured

[Dieter Baier / e3 <dbaier@e3ag.de>]

Hi Martin,

after I installed the kernel-header-files I could find something of mousedev and psmous. But I don't know if I really load them. And if not, how to load them. In fact I receive some error during booting because of something might be wrong with 'mice'. On /dev/input I can se a mice-entry. But it seems not to be a file nor a directory. The first character (on a ls -l) shows me a c. What does this mean?

Yes, you are right: I'm trying to run debian (and XFree86) inside VMwar 5.

Thank you so far, Dieter

Martin Michlmayr wrote:

* Dieter Baier <dieter.baier@q-dsl.de> [2005-10-11 06:06]:
  

Package: VMwareTools
Version: 5.0.0-13124
    

You're basically running XFree86 inside VMware, right?

Anyway, are you loading the mousedev and psmouse modules?  I think one
of them creates /dev/input/mice