witold@cs.washington.edu (Witold Paluszynski) (12/21/89)
I am trying to run X windows under 386/ix using a serial mouse from Logitech (model C-9, 3 button). I type xinit and the screen first goes black, then returns with an error message saying that the Logitech mouse is not responding and I should try unplugging/ replugging it. If I kill the program and run it immediately again, with a !! and without even touching the mouse, then X windows come up with no further problems. This false start occurs every time, also when I exit X windows and then start them again with xinit. Although there are no problems with the mouse while in X windows (and there really is no reason to leave them once you are in :-), this starting glitch is irritating. I called Interactive and they deny any knowledge of a software problems with this mouse, instead suggesting that it might be defective. The mouse is plugged into COM1 with its own interrupt 4. Trying two different IO boards with two different UARTs does not change the situation. Has anyone heard of such a problem and, preferably, a cure? The mouse is new and could possibly be defective, although works fine with everything else I tried. I couldn't borrow this specific kind of mouse to swap-test it. Thanks, Witold
pax@ankh.COM (Garry M. Paxinos) (12/25/89)
In article <10232@june.cs.washington.edu> witold@cs.washington.edu (Witold Paluszynski) writes:
[.. problems about using a Logitech C-9 mouse ..]
Although there are no problems with the mouse while in X windows
(and there really is no reason to leave them once you are in :-),
this starting glitch is irritating. I called Interactive and
they deny any knowledge of a software problems with this mouse,
instead suggesting that it might be defective. The mouse is
plugged into COM1 with its own interrupt 4. Trying two different
IO boards with two different UARTs does not change the situation.
Has anyone heard of such a problem and, preferably, a cure? The
mouse is new and could possibly be defective, although works fine
with everything else I tried. I couldn't borrow this specific
kind of mouse to swap-test it.
We have had the exact same problems and reported them to Hollis, there
reply initialy was the same [we don't know of any problem... HA]. After
further pressure saying this was with several C-9 mice and that C-7's
work fine, they 'investigated further' and said that was a know problem
and the next release of X11 would fix it. Well, we got in release 1.1
last week and the problem remains...
Oh, one other thing we are experiencing with the C-9 is that a VT switch
will bring down X, the XError message being the same as failed startup.
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