Here’s a patch to the vmmouse port that activates the driver unconditionally. This makes the VMware mouse driver work in the default configuration in FreeBSD (7 and 8).

When xorg moved to use hal by default, the vmmouse driver needed to be registered with hal. This would work fine, except for the the current port version of hal (hal-0.5.11_25) not supporting a command line option that the probe script for vmmouse needs, and the matching code that determines whether to probe for VMware never matching on FreeBSD.

The patch unconditionally activates the vmmouse driver. This should be fine even when not running in VMware, as vmmouse should be compatible with the default xorg mouse driver.