Mouse problem on Centos 5.4 64 bit

[alexpacio]

Hi,
I installed Centos 5.4 64bit on a KVM machine but the mouse doesn't work as it should (i see 2 pointers). How can i solve it?

 

[tom]

Hi,
I installed Centos 5.4 64bit on a KVM machine but the mouse doesn't work as it should (i see 2 pointers). How can i solve it?

you need to find the correct settings inside your guest. modern distributions do this automatically. e.g. fedora, ubuntu, ...

for debian lenny I wrote a howto in this forum. just google around and hopefully you will find the solution for centos and you can post it here also for others.

 

[JustaGuy]

FYI folks that debian howto is here.

 

[JustaGuy]

I've been googling for hours to no avail on this.
This is far from acceptable behavior.

Could maybe someone who's been through this post a solution for Centos 5.4 x86_64?

 

[tom]

I've been googling for hours to no avail on this.
This is far from acceptable behavior.

Could maybe someone who's been through this post a solution for Centos 5.4 x86_64?

post in a centos forum. I assume they should know how to configure their X on the host. or even better, use the original instead the copy (redhat) - they know for sure how to configure their OS as they also own the KVM project.

we are Debian experts here and till now no centos user posted a solutions here, hopefully you will do it after you find it.

 

[rugby]

Hi,
I installed Centos 5.4 64bit on a KVM machine but the mouse doesn't work as it should (i see 2 pointers). How can i solve it?

I see the same thing with CentOS 5.4 32-bit.

It's not that big of a deal to me as I'm never using the UI after the initial installation.

 

[JustaGuy]

Centos Forum Post

 

[m.ardito]

i have the same behaviour wirh centos 5.4 32 bit as kvm on proxmox 1.5 (on a full lenny)
i tried to enable remote desktop on the centos and connected with ultravnc vncviewer, from a windows machine, and i have no double cursors, so i think centos is behaving correctly. it could be something on the java vncviewer side, maybe just configuration, but none of the option provided seems to affect remote cursor...

 

[tom]

you need to configure this inside the centos, but I am not a centos expert. there are guides here in the forum for Debian Lenny, most other works without issues out of the box (Ubuntu, Fedora, ...)

 

[bsnipes]

SLES works properly and taking the xorg.conf from a SLES box and dropping it into the CentOS 5.5 /etc/X11 directory seems to work fine. I am attaching a working xorg.conf to this post ( renamed to xorg.conf.txt )