I just upgraded motherboard and CPU. The new motherboard seems to prefer a PS/2 mouse (IRQ12) so that's what I'm using. (not to mention freeing up a COM port) Everything still works fine with the GGI Arachne, but the SVGAlib Arachne takes complete control of the mouse and doesn't let me have any. (Linux Arachne 1.66 in case I need to say it) When Arachne starts, the mouse starts out in some arbitrary position on the screen. Then, no matter which way you move the mouse, the cursor moves up and left until it gets to the upper left hand corner, after which any movement of the mouse results in rapid shakey movement across the top of the screen after which it parks itself back at the left. Using TAB is also totally unpredictable. Shift-cursor also has no effect. Then, no matter which way you move the mouse, the cursor moves up and left until it parks itself at the upper lefthand corner. For the REALLY IRRITATING part, if you leave an SVGAlib Arachne running on a console and switch back to X, the mouse exhibits similar behavior THERE! Total spasmodic movements, as well as cutting and pasting things all over the place where you don't intend! I just had to cut 4 copies of the first three paragraphs out of this message along with some other stuff from other xterms! I'm not familiar with the way gpm might work in a graphical application like this, (the only other SVGAlib app I use is zgv, which doesn't use a mouse) but is there any way of letting the SVGAlib version use gpm instead of the internal Arachne mouse control? Info gpm says, "The daemon is also able to repeat packets in 'msc' format to a graphic application." In my ignorant impression, that would seem to indicate it might be worth looking into. Wouldn't it be more efficient for Linux Arachne to use system mouse calls rather than internally implemented ones? Wouldn't that also then allow hooking into the X mouse for GGI? -- Steve Ackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glass Host, Arts & Crafts http://www.delphi.com/crafts Metamorphosis Glassworks Page http://twovoyagers.com/metamorphosis
