xubuntu guest, mouse doesn't scroll

Hi,

Hoping someone else has had this or a similar problem...

Here's what I did. The host is an ESX3.5 host, all up-to-date. I've included all my steps, just as a convenience (I write those type of things down anyways)

I created a new VM from a ubuntu jeos 8.04 iso.

Then I installed vmware-tools by selecting install vmware-tools from the tar.gz file.

mount /media/cdrom
cp /media/cdrom/*.tar.gz .
tar -xf VMware*.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install vmware-build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
cd ~/vmware-tools-distrib

When I tried to run the installer it complained about killall not being installed... so

sudo apt-get install psmisc
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Everything worked fine with that..

Then I decided to add a GUI so I would have my own browser appliance..

Instead of going for the standard gnome interface, i went for xubuntu

So I did a:

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

and let it roll...

that worked great.. and the next reboot I could use my desktop already..

After another apt-get update / upgrade roll I had to recompile my kernel again (and get the kernel-headers once more) but that's about all I had to do.

Things work very nice and I'm mostly happy with the install... there's one catch..

My mouse wheel scroll function doesn't work.. anyone here has a suggestion on how-to fix that one?

Thanks!

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Wil