Friday, 29 February 2008

Get Scroll Mouse to Work on Ubuntu 7.10 and VMWare Fusion

I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 running under VMWare Fusion on my Mac for a project. I couldn't get the scroll mouse to work. A bit perplexing given that it is a very generic Logitec Optical mouse.

Well I finally found a fix on this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Tools.

Just change the Protocol line for your mouse device in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to:
Options "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

That seems to do the trick

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