[SOLVED] gentoo as vmware guest --> X not working

[ats2]

Hi,

As I said in the title, I can't get X working for my gentoo guest inside vmware. I have set the video driver to vmware, the mouse to vmmouse, my rc.conf points to gdm, /etc/conf.d/xdm too but when I issue a 'startx', All I get is a x terminal without mouse or keyboard (I have to log via ssh and kill the whole thing to get keyboard back.)
I have set 'exec gnome-session' in .xinitrc too. What's more, I have no error messages in Xorg.0.log or in /var/log/messages.

So I'm stuck here. Any help ?

PS : I've checked xf86-input-vmmouse and xf86-video-vmware are installed. They are.

[forkboy]

Is hal running?

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/etc/init.d/hald start

[FuzzyRay]

I had to add the following to my Xorg.conf to get keyboard and mouse working correctly for me in the vmware guest.

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Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "AutoAddDevices"    "false"
EndSection

[ats2]

I needed both actually: hal wasn't started (stupid of me) and the line in xorg.conf was necessary too.
Everything's okay now.
Thanks to you both

[phajdan.jr]

I had to add the following to my Xorg.conf to get keyboard and mouse working correctly for me in the vmware guest.

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Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "AutoAddDevices"    "false"
EndSection

For me keyboard and mouse were working properly, but mouse was not working in Unity mode. I tried applying this change, and it broke mouse for me, even in normal mode. Is there some way to force xorg to use vmmouse driver?

[s4e8]

the vmmouse problem is: xf86-input-vmmouse install incorrect hal-probe-vmmouse. the right one is:

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gentoo tmp # cat /usr/libexec/hal-probe-vmmouse 
#!/bin/sh
# ................
[ -x /usr/bin/hal-set-property ] || exit 0
[ -x /usr/bin/vmmouse_detect ] || exit 0
/usr/bin/vmmouse_detect
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
   (
   for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
   /usr/bin/hal-set-property --udi "$UDI" --key input.x11_driver --string "vmmouse"
   sleep 1
   done
   )&
fi

gentoo tmp # lshal -u /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input'
  info.callouts.add = {'hal-probe-vmmouse'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse'} (string list)
  info.category = 'input'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port'  (string)
  info.product = 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input'  (string)
  input.device = '/dev/input/event1'  (string)
  input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port'  (string)
  input.product = 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse'  (string)
  input.x11_driver = 'vmmouse'  (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event1'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input1/event1'  (string)