I have been looking around for a smaller mouse driver for my logitec 3
button mouse. The problem is that it is on a bus port. I tried ctmouse,
but it can't seem to find my bus port. Any ideas as to how to makeit
run? The driver I have now is only 17k, but every little bit can help.
Michael
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, P. Stephen Baxter, P. Eng. wrote:
> (For some odd reason my server is refusing mail only to you, so I am
> using the digest as a forwarder)
>
> Dear Dev,
>
> Part 1
> MSMOUSE was evidently the culprit in preventing loading it high.
> CTMOUSEP did the trick as the data below demonstrates. you will see that
> I have also reinserted two other drivers without penalty. My profound
> thanks to you.
>
> You asked:
> "What are your hard disk partitions?"
> Answer: None. At 120 mB and DBLSPACEd I have little need of partitions,
> unless I am missing something useful here. I would be interested in your
> comments. Messing about with partitions raises spectres in my mind of
> lost data .
>
> You asked:
>
> "Why is there a E: drive on the SMARTDRV line?"
> Answer: (From on-line HELP) "SMARTDRV does not actually cache compressed
> drives; instead, it caches the physical (host) drive [in my case E:] on
> which the compressed volume file is located. This improves the speed of
> both the physical drive and the compressed drive."
>
> Part 2
> Now let's try loading EPPPD high too!
>
> You said March 21:
> "After optimising your memory to get a 69K free UMB block,
> (For PCDOS/MSDOS type mem/c/p to check), here is what to do
> to load epppd high when online with Arachne.
>
> 1) In ARACHNE.CFG, look for this line
> Connection @epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG
> and change it to
> Connection @lh epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG
>
> 2) Loading EPPPD high worked for me when I have BOOTP enabled
> and show terminal screen disabled.
>
> Go to PPP options (accessible from your dialer page)
> and uncheck 'show terminal screen'
> Select 'external dialer setup screen'and under IP address,
> select the 'Try to use BOOTP' option"
>
> Option 1) alone does not work for me, so I must somehow
> include Option 2). Your instructions should translate into amendments to
> ARACHNE.CFG. Could you specify them for me?
>
> --------------------- DATA ---------------------
>
> MEM /C
> Modules using memory below 1 MB:
>
> Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory
> -------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
> MSDOS 17,053 (17K) 17,053 (17K) 0 (0K)
> HIMEM 1,120 (1K) 1,120 (1K) 0 (0K)
> EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K)
> COMMAND 3,696 (4K) 3,696 (4K) 0 (0K)
> SETVER 624 (1K) 0 (0K) 624 (1K)
> ANSI 4,240 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,240 (4K)
> CTMOUSE 5,984 (6K) 0 (0K) 5,984 (6K)
> DBLSPACE 39,344 (38K) 0 (0K) 39,344 (38K)
> SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K) 29,024 (28K)
> Free 704,224 (688K) 629,120 (614K) 75,104 (73K)
>
> Memory Summary:
>
> Type of Memory Total = Used + Free
> ---------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
> Conventional 655,360 26,240 629,120
> Upper 154,320 79,216 75,104
> Reserved 393,216 393,216 0
> Extended (XMS) 15,574,320 2,336,048 13,238,272
> ---------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
> Total memory 16,777,216 2,834,720 13,942,496
>
> Total under 1 MB 809,680 105,456 704,224
>
> Largest executable program size 629,024 (614K)
> Largest free upper memory block 32,752 (32K)
> MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
>
> MEM /D
>
> Conventional Memory Detail:
>
> Segment Total Name Type
> ------- ---------------- ----------- --------
> 00000 1,039 (1K) Interrupt Vector
> 00040 271 (0K) ROM Communication Area
> 00050 527 (1K) DOS Communication Area
> 00070 2,656 (3K) IO System Data
> CON System Device Driver
> AUX System Device Driver
> PRN System Device Driver
> CLOCK$ System Device Driver
> A: - C: System Device Driver
> COM1 System Device Driver
> LPT1 System Device Driver
> LPT2 System Device Driver
> LPT3 System Device Driver
> COM2 System Device Driver
> COM3 System Device Driver
> COM4 System Device Driver
> 00116 5,424 (5K) MSDOS System Data
> 00269 12,336 (12K) IO System Data
> 1,104 (1K) XMSXXXX0 Installed Device=HIMEM
>
> 4,128 (4K) EMMQXXX0 Installed
> Device=EMM386
> 2,672 (3K) FILES=50
> 256 (0K) FCBS=4
> 512 (1K) BUFFERS=10
> 528 (1K) LASTDRIVE=F
> 3,008 (3K) STACKS=9,256
> 0056C 80 (0K) MSDOS System Program
> 00571 2,656 (3K) COMMAND Program
> 00617 80 (0K) MSDOS -- Free --
> 0061C 1,040 (1K) COMMAND Environment
> 0065D 240 (0K) MEM Environment
> 0066C 88,992 (87K) MEM Program
> 01C26 540,048 (527K) MSDOS -- Free --
>
> Upper Memory Detail:
>
> Segment Region Total Name Type
> ------- ------ ---------------- ----------- --------
> 0B14A 1 15,168 (15K) MSDOS -- Free --
>
> 0C001 2 608 (1K) IO System Data
> 576 (1K) SETVERXX Installed
> Device=SETVER
> 0C027 2 4,224 (4K) IO System Data
> 4,192 (4K) CON Installed Device=ANSI
>
> 0C12F 2 5,984 (6K) CTMOUSE Program
> 0C2A5 2 16 (0K) MSDOS -- Free --
> 0C2A6 2 1,408 (1K) MSDOS -- Free --
>
> 0C801 3 8,144 (8K) MSDOS -- Free --
>
> 0CB01 4 39,328 (38K) IO System Data
> 39,296 (38K) DBLSYSH$ Installed
> Device=DBLSPACE
> 0D49B 4 48 (0K) MSDOS -- Free --
> 0D49E 4 29,024 (28K) SMARTDRV Program
> 0DBB4 4 17,568 (17K) MSDOS -- Free --
>
> 0F601 5 32,752 (32K) MSDOS -- Free --
>
> Memory Summary:
>
> Type of Memory Total = Used + Free
> ---------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
> Conventional 655,360 26,240 629,120
> Upper 154,320 79,216 75,104
> Reserved 393,216 393,216 0
> Extended (XMS) 15,574,320 2,336,048 13,238,272
> ---------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
> Total memory 16,777,216 2,834,720 13,942,496
>
> Total under 1 MB 809,680 105,456 704,224
>
> Memory accessible using Int 15h 0 (0K)
> Largest executable program size 629,024 (614K)
> Largest free upper memory block 32,752 (32K)
> MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
>
> XMS version 3.00; driver version 3.16
>
> MEM /F
>
> Free Conventional Memory:
>
> Segment Total
> ------- -----------------
> 00617 80 (0K)
> 0065D 240 (0K)
> 0066C 88,992 (87K)
> 01C26 540,048 (527K)
>
> Total Free: 629,360 (615K)
>
> Free Upper Memory:
>
> Region Largest Free Total Free Total Size
> ------ -------------- -------------- --------------
> 1 15,168 (15K) 15,168 (15K) 15,168 (15K)
> 2 1,408 (1K) 1,424 (1K) 12,272 (12K)
> 3 8,144 (8K) 8,144 (8K) 8,144 (8K)
> 4 17,568 (17K) 17,616 (17K) 85,984 (84K)
> 5 32,752 (32K) 32,752 (32K) 32,752 (32K)
>
> MEM /M CTMOUSE
>
> CTMOUSE is using the following memory:
>
> Segment Region Total Type
> ------- ------ ---------------- --------
> 0C12F 2 5,984 (6K) Program
> ----------------
> Total Size: 5,984 (6K)
>
>
> Yours, Aye,
>
> Stephen.
>
> -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
>
