Re: VMWare/ Mouse

From: DM (darrinm_at_ga.prestige.net)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 07:54:19 -0400

I will eventually try the VMWare support route for my (legal) copy, but
since they don't support SCO, I didn't expect it to be much help. I was
really encouraged by your earlier posting on VMWare, so I thought I'd see if
anyone had any new experiences. The mouse problem I have is exactly like you
described. It goes to the right of the screen and all other movements are
taken as right movements. Since I have seen this on real machines, I figured
it was a SCO problem and not a VMWare problem. I could be mistaken on the
exact key sequence to reset the mouse on the real machine, but it was
something like that. It was found in some posting somewhere as a work
around. Sorry for the lack of details, it's been a long time since I worked
on that. I will try a serial mouse on com1 and see if it does the same
thing. Any other suggestions would be helpful.

"Bela Lubkin" <belal@sco.com> wrote in message
news:20040519030220.GN10272@sco.com...
> <darrinm@ga.prestige.net> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for a mouse problem in VMWare? I read
where
> > Bella experienced the same issues in VMWare, but I didn't see any tips.
I
> > installed 5.0.7 in VMWare 4.51 and everything works perfectly, except
the
> > mouse. At random times it freaks out and goes to the right side of the
> > screen and stops working. Only a re-boot/restart of VMWare brings it
back.
> > Sometimes I can work for hours before this happens, sometimes only
seconds.
> > I have VMWare installed on Win2K/SP3. The mouse is a Microsoft
intellimouse
> > optical wheel connected to the PS2 port. It seems that a mouse click in
the
> > SCO graphical environment needs a movement to trigger the click. In
other
> > words, if you manage to click and not move the mouse, it won't do
anything,
> > but as soon as you move the mouse, it takes the click. Most of the time
this
> > is not a problem, since its hard to click without some movement(probably
a
> > caffeine thing). I have had similar problems with 5.0.7 on a real
machine,
> > except that a shift-cntrl-click resets the mouse on the real machine and
I
> > can keep working. This trick doesn't work in VMWare. I installed the
> > maintenance 1 package from the SCO site and this didn't help. Any
> > suggestions would be helpful.
>
> Besides being a problem with the mouse, this doesn't seem to relate to
> the problem I had. In my case the mouse would actually become
> completely unusable, and stay that way until I rebooted the virtual
> machine. It would basically start acting like no matter what motions
> and clicks I did, it saw me moving the mouse always to the right.
>
> Unfortunately, my VMware trial edition has expired; and the only _good_
> description I had written of the problem has disappeared into the maw of
> VMware's support web page, with absolutely no response...
>
> I can't think why shift-control-click would help reset anything on OSR5
> on a real machine.
>
> Have you tried using your (presumably) paid-for customer status to get
> support from VMware?
>
> >Bela<

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