CentOS 3.3 won't pick up my Notebook's Mouse

[ajclifford]

Hello,

I installed CentOS 3.3 in VMWare 4.0 Workstation on my Dell Inspiron 8600 Notebook on the weekend but I can't for the life of me configure it to use either my Dell Mouse Touchpad nor a Microsoft Optical USB Mouse.

Has anyone had any issues with this before or know of a quick solution? I don't think there are any specific drivers for either of the mouses I've used that are specifically for *nix/Linux so I'm hoping CentOS 3.3 has good USB 2.0 support? But I don't know!

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Alex

 

[stefanwagner]

I don't know CentOS.
Is it a Linux distro?

And do you miss the mice on the commandline, or in the GUI?

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[ajclifford]

Yeah CentOS is a distro of Linux based on Red Hat. The mouse just doesn't install all together.

 

[oppcos]

I've heard a lot of people have trouble with Red Hat running in VMWare with their mouse. VMWare makes the mouse look like a different device than it is. I don't have VMWare to test this, but Red Hat's site says to use the Generic PS/2 instead of what you think you have to make it work.

http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/guestos_redhat90.html

Hope that helps.

 

[ajclifford]

Cool thanks oppcos. I'll give that a try tonight and let you know, hopefully it's not different for touchpad's.

Alex