Open-vm-tools issues with VMware in Arch64?

Is anyone else having any issues with VMware Workstation 6.5 and open-vm-tools? I seem to have it installed properly, but my mouse isn't automatically disengaging or anything like it should. Do I need to edit my xorg.conf at all for them to be working properly?

E.g. just follow, if you didn't that.
Is there issue just with workstation or Server, Player too ? Dou you have issue with earlier vmware version ?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_VMware
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _in_VMWare

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Last edited by andyxl987 (2009-08-04 00:17:29)

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* playback of flash video produces a sound artefact when starting - although I think this may be to do with the decoder rather than system
I've marked this as solved although I welcome any suggestions regarding these minor issues. The open-vm-tools one I can probably sort out but it's too late now to look into tonight
Last edited by andyxl987 (2009-08-04 00:21:03)

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