koch@motcid.UUCP (Clifton Koch) (10/18/90)
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who responded about getting my
Paradise 1024 card working at 1024x768 with Windows. I downloaded some
new drivers from the Paradise BBS and the 1024x768 display comes up fine.
And now to the problems (sigh): My mouse dies after a seemingly random
period. I've tried booting the system 'clean' (except for the drivers
necessary for Windows), with no difference. When the mouse kicks off, windows
still works through the keyboard, so it's not totally locked up. Killing
windows and reinvoking it will temporarily get rid of the problem, however
after a number of restarts, the mouse dies very quickly (usually before all
of the windows have a chance to come up), then a reset will solve the problem.
Windows apparently uses their own mouse driver, because it doesn't matter
whether or not I install the logitech driver.
This only appears to happen when the 1024x768 driver is installed. One
oddity, though I don't think it's the problem, is that when I install the
driver, the windows setup program stuffs a device=ega.sys in the config.sys,
and I don't have ega.sys anywhere.
So, has anyone else had similar problems? My hardware setup is:
AT 12Mhz clone, AMI bios, VLSI chipset, logitech mouse, paradise1024 with
512K, (old) 8250 based serial card (which mouse is hooked to). I've tried
yanking some of the other system cards with no difference.
Any help is appreciated.
Cliff Koch
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