david@csource.oz.au (david nugent) (05/13/91)
I seem to have only on problem running fas 2.0 under ISC 2.2.0; all else
works brilliantly except that MicroSoft's MOUSE.COM v6.24 no longer
recognises the presence of a serial mouse on the serial port. Certainly
the DOS task has no problem in seeing the port - all other software that
I run which uses it has no problems at all, both under Unix and VP/ix -
in fact the majority of it works vastly better. X11 has no problems in
using the mouse at all.
The port does have a National Semiconductor 16550AFN, but it has exactly
the same problems with a 16450 plugged into the same slot. Also the same
result if I used COM1 instead of COM1MOUSE in vpix.cnf. I have enabled
full hardware flow control.
Any ideas? Before I start digging; has this perhaps already been solved?
Should I simply upgrade my mouse driver (I'm guessing that this is where
the problem is)? If so - what versions do work?
Regards,
david
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Internet/ACSnet: david@csource.oz.au Uucp: ..!uunet!munnari!csource!davidgemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) (05/14/91)
david@csource.oz.au (david nugent) writes: >I seem to have only on problem running fas 2.0 under ISC 2.2.0; all else >works brilliantly except that MicroSoft's MOUSE.COM v6.24 no longer >recognises the presence of a serial mouse on the serial port. Certainly >the DOS task has no problem in seeing the port - all other software that >I run which uses it has no problems at all, both under Unix and VP/ix - >in fact the majority of it works vastly better. X11 has no problems in >using the mouse at all. I'm using the version 6.24A together with a Genius mouse in Microsoft mode. This works without any problems. Try to access the mouse via a device with a minor device number of 0 + port#. That's what I do because the mouse has neither modem nor hardware flow control. If this doesn't help, try a different version of the mouse driver. Unfortunately, those drivers tend to have a fragile timing and do all sorts of special tricks. This can cause problems with VP/ix because the serial ports are completely emulated in software, and in some cases this emulation isn't accurate enough. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | INET : gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de Berlin |---------------------------------------------------------------- Germany | UUCP : ...!unido!fub!geminix.in-berlin.de!gemini