I must admit that I'm confused about who is the maintainer of Cutemouse these days, and what is the latest official version. Can someone clear this up for me?
Is Cutemouse 2.1 the latest official version? Or is 2.1 Eric's own fork of the project? The Cutemouse web site <http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/> only mentions a 2.0 branch and nothing about 2.1. But that page hasn't been updated in a very long time (2003) so maybe the Cutemouse site is dead? I don't see Eric listed as a developer or admin on http://sourceforge.net/projects/cutemouse so I assume Eric's 2.1 is a fork. This seems correct, as the LSM for Cutemouse <http://www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=lsm&lsm=base/ctmouse.lsm> says Eric's 2.1 version is beta, and is not listed as official. -jh On 12/31/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there :-) > > > Hello everybody! CuteMouse project is dead; I can develop new mouse > > driver for the FreeDOS project. This driver, named "FreeMouse", I > > started today. Please reply to me, I want that you help me writing > > Well maybe you did not wait long enough for a reply from Nagy Daniel: > Current CuteMouse 2.1 development is done by me :-). So CuteMouse is > not dead, but you are welcome to help :-). > > > correct autodetection of used mouse type, and handle the > > PS/2/COM/MSMouse's. I do not understand the architecture of the > > CuteMouse, which is written in assembler, but I write FreeMouse > > in the TurboPascal v3.0. Previously big thanks for all of this case! > > I must admit that the CuteMouse source code is ugly but on the > other hand it is small because it is written in Assembler :-). > > Current version 2.1b3 is here: > > www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/ctmouse21b3.zip > > What I was planning to do next was to make the COM handling > automatic: Maybe remove Mouse Systems (Genius) protocol or > at least make it no supported by default. The current version > has an option /Y ignore Mouse Systems, and most people should > use it, because you cannot detect whether you talk to one of > those mice or just to an empty serial port in a nice way ;-). > So my plan is to make that "ignore Mouse Systems" the default. > > Then, only two main COM protocols are left: Logitech mouse and > Microsoft Mouse protocol. My plan would be to change the code > of "MSLTproc" to automatically decide for each packet which of > the two protocols the packet is. Then you have hotplugging for > COM mice :-). You also have a chance for hotplugging of PS2 > mice already with 2.1, if you use the /O option to disable the > wheel part (which is hard to re-bootstrap on the fly). Note that > PS2 is not officially meant to support hotplugging, you might > even damage old hardware by doing it? > > As this COM protocol autodecision is a bit tricky, you may want > to write a Pascal version of it first, so I can port it to ASM > for CuteMouse :-). > > Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
