Howto - Install vmware tools in Ubunto (VMware 4.5) + co

Chris ubuntu at functionalfuture.com
Wed Oct 20 19:11:47 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 10:24 -0500, jdecarlo wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I tried your instructions and wanted to thank you for them.  I actually tried /dev/input/mouse0 (after all, I had to pick either that or mice), and so far it seems to work.  Any idea what the difference is?

"/dev/input/mice" allows you to use any pointing device connected to the
computer.  "/dev/input/mouseX" will work just fine when using VMware
because there is only one device anyway.

Thanks for the feedback.

-- 
// Chris





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