virtualbox freebsd 9.1 guest, mouse not operational
Norbert Beckmann
nb at informatik.uni-bremen.de
Sun Mar 3 04:57:53 UTC 2013
Environment:
(Host OS: Solaris 11.1)
VirtualBox 4.6.2 (r82870)
Guest: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE (#0 r243825)
Gnome 2.32
I did a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.1 in VirtualBox. Runs fine so far and,
after capturing the mouse pointer on black screen, copy/paste works too.
Then I installed Gnome 2.32, following all the instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome.
Btw, "pkg_add -r gnome2" did not work.(??) So I had to compile.
Then I installed the guest additions, following all the instructions at
https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox, chapter "Installing Guest Additions
for FreeBSD guests". After the make, I called X -configure and moved a
modified copy to /etc/X11/xorg.conf as proposed, and performed all the
other things mentioned at that page.
Problem: Mouse is not operational in FreeBSD:
Gnome disabled and calling X, I get a black screen, the mouse pointer
disappears, and I also cannot capture it manually.
Gnome enabled, I get a proper gnome login screen after boot, the mouse
pointer is there, but does not affect something.
Extra attempts (no success / no harm):
in /etc/rc.conf: enabling hald, dbus, mouse.
in /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/ in addition to 90-vboxguest.fdi, adding
10-mouse-sysmouse.fdi from /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor.
Remark: no mouse problems with other guests.
Attachment: /etc/X11/xorg.conf followed by /etc/rc.conf
Any ideas, hints?
Norbert
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$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "record"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "vboxmouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vboxvideo"
VendorName "InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH"
BoardName "VirtualBox Graphics Adapter"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
$
$ cat /etc/rc.conf
hostname=""
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
sshd_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
ntpd_enable="YES"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="AUTO"
##### Changes after installation
vboxguest_enable="YES"
vboxservice_enable="YES"
# vbox's timesync: default: enabled, conflicts with ntpd (see above)
vboxservice_flags="--disable-timesync"
# begin extra ---
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
mouse_enable="YES"
# end extra -----
#gnome_enable="YES"
$
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