d88-sak@dront.nada.kth.se (Sebastian ]kerman) (10/04/90)
Hi fellows, I'm having trouble with Compatibility box and Windows 3.0. I know this question's right place is in Comp.os.os2 but nobody seems to be reading that newsgroup anymoore (Tells it about os2 future), so I better ask it here too. Question> Is there a way of telling os2/PM to let go of my mouse for use in Comp.box ? Do I really have to reconfigure (change config.sys, and reboot) everytime I want to use my mouse in Windows ? If so, OS2 stinks even more than I thought. (I'd rather run "someware" else than OS2:-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memory Lost -- Ooops! Never ever subscribed to eunet.jokes EMAIL: d88-sak@nada.kth.se (Sebastian Akerman) Tel: +46-8-159993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (10/05/90)
In article <1990Oct3.230413.21201@kth.se> d88-sak@dront.nada.kth.se (Sebastian ]kerman) writes: >Hi fellows, > I'm having trouble with Compatibility box and Windows 3.0. I know this >question's right place is in Comp.os.os2 but nobody seems to be reading >that newsgroup anymoore (Tells it about os2 future), so I better ask it >here too. There are many people reading comp.os.os2 (including me). But I did not see your question showing up there!! >Question> Is there a way of telling os2/PM to let go of my mouse for use >in Comp.box ? Do I really have to reconfigure (change config.sys, and reboot) >everytime I want to use my mouse in Windows ? If so, OS2 stinks even more >than I thought. (I'd rather run "someware" else than OS2:-) In order to let Windows in the compatibility box use the mouse, you have to configure *Windows* for standard VGA rather than some super VGA mode. OS/2 knows about super VGA if you have a driver for PM, but it always supports only standard IBM video modes for the compatibility box. You may have noticed, when using a super VGA driver for Windows in the comp.box that the screen is not restored properly when switching from Windows back to PM and then again to the comp.box. I am using Windows 3.0 sometimes (but rarely) in the OS/2 DOS box and the mouse works, when Windows is configured for 640x480 standard VGA mode. Kai Uwe Rommel -- /* Kai Uwe Rommel * Munich * rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de */