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How to get the mouse working with Ubuntu 7.04 under Virtual PC

I know a lot of people have been trying to get Ubuntu 7.04 working under Virtual PC - and have been hitting the problem that the mouse does not work.  Well - details of how to get the mouse working have now been posted here:

http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/fixing-ubuntu-704-fiesty-fawn-mouse-under-virtual-pc-2007/

Have fun!

Cheers,
Ben

Published Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:53 PM by Virtual PC Guy

Comments

# re: How to get the mouse working with Ubuntu 7.04 under Virtual PC

I have made available a nice scriptlet for virtual machine backup. It is especially designed for production environment. Available as free download from http://forum.hostbreak.com/showthread.php?t=302.

Aziz

Friday, June 01, 2007 7:40 AM by Azizn Paracha

# re: How to get the mouse working with Ubuntu 7.04 under Virtual PC

A more scalable approach, one that survives updates, is to simply use the boot parameter

"i8042.noloop".  I describe how to do this on my blog, link below.  The patch also works on the default release LiveCD, but will not work if you upgrade the kernel to fix other bugs.

Setting the boot paramter just skips the whole issue.

http://www.nettakeaway.com/tp/article/294/ubuntu-704-and-no-mouse-on-virtual-pc

Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:33 AM by Michael Wexler
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