s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) (06/24/91)
I have a really wierd problem. I have a 386 with a Quadtel Bios, and all has gone perfectly, until I tried Cscape (the demo version). It works properly, but the mouse cursor is not visible! By running the mouse around the table, various things light up, but of course you can't use it properly because you don't know where you are. This is so in both text and graphics modes. I have Wordperfect, Drawperfect, Quick C, Topspeed C, Metawindows, and lots more, all of which work perfectly with the mouse. Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! -- Regards, Ron House. (s64421@zeus.usq.edu.au) (By post: Info Tech, U.C.S.Q. Toowoomba. Australia. 4350)
sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun) (06/25/91)
s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) writes: >I have a really wierd problem. I have a 386 with a Quadtel Bios, and >all has gone perfectly, until I tried Cscape (the demo version). It >works properly, but the mouse cursor is not visible! By running the mouse >around the table, various things light up, but of course you can't use it >properly because you don't know where you are. This is so in both text >and graphics modes. I have Wordperfect, Drawperfect, Quick C, Topspeed C, >Metawindows, and lots more, all of which work perfectly with the mouse. >Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! >-- >Regards, >Ron House. (s64421@zeus.usq.edu.au) >(By post: Info Tech, U.C.S.Q. Toowoomba. Australia. 4350) As far as I know, the appearance/disappearance of the mouse cursor, at least for Microsoft mouse, has to do with INT 33H. Check to see if you have any hardware/software that uses this interrupt vector as well. Andy _______________________________________________________________________________ Andy Sun | Internet: sun@me.utoronto.ca University of Toronto, Canada | UUCP : ...!utai!me!sun Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | BITNET : sun@me.toronto.BITNET
everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Everett Kaser) (06/25/91)
Some mouse drivers have extended video BIOS stuff in them for writing to EGA registers (since the original EGA registers were read only). If you have code that doesn't make use of these calls, that might be part of the problem. (ie, code that talks straight to the EGA hardware itself can have problems with some combinations of display cards and mouse drivers.) Everett Kaser Hewlett-Packard Company ...hplabs!hp-pcd!everett work: (503) 750-3569 Corvallis, Oregon everett%hpcvra@hplabs.hp.com home: (503) 928-5259 Albany, Oregon