[Freedos-user] Cutemouse locking up; suggestings on things to try?
Hi everyone, We're using cutemouse 2.0 alpha4 under FreeDOS 1.1.35W (Build 2035W), HIMEM64 3.11, and FreeCOM 0.84-pre. We're using it on a large range of systems, and we're getting lots of lock ups (on maybe 10% of the systems). We don't mind if cutemouse fails and there's no mouse, but we do mind if it locks up up the system (which is what it's doing). Any ideas on what we might try to stop it from locking up? For example: 1. All of our systems are fairly modern, so there's no COM mouses (that we know of). So should we use /P? 2. We don't understand /Y - if this is important, can someone explain it to us? 3. Could this be a memory issue, and /W would help? Finally, we could always stick with the the MS mouse driver... do people have any experience with it versus cutemouse? We'd like to stick with open source, but in this case it's really causing us some technical support headaches. Thanks! Andrew -- --- Andrew Greenberg - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 503.788.1343 --- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse locking up; suggestings on things to try?
Hi! 24-Авг-2006 02:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Greenberg) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: AG We're using cutemouse 2.0 alpha4 under FreeDOS 1.1.35W (Build 2035W), AG HIMEM64 3.11, This (3.11) may be reason. Update to latest edition: ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/emmx225.zip and try again. AG and FreeCOM 0.84-pre. We're using it on a large range of AG systems, and we're getting lots of lock ups (on maybe 10% of the AG systems). We don't mind if cutemouse fails and there's no mouse, but we AG do mind if it locks up up the system (which is what it's doing). AG Any ideas on what we might try to stop it from locking up? AG For example: AG 1. All of our systems are fairly modern, so there's no COM mouses (that AG we know of). There was changed (fixed) EMM386 so, that it now correctly preserves interrupt flag when calling INT15 - whereas CuteMouse 2.0 depends precisely on INT15 BIOS services. Before this change in EMM386, CuteMouse was locked (at least) in QEMU. This is why I recommend you firstly try latest EMM386 edition. AG So should we use /P? No, PS/2 searched first. AG 2. We don't understand /Y - if this is important, can someone explain it AG to us? Do you read ctmouse.txt (This is because the Mouse Systems protocol defines no detection sequence). Option /Y in the command line disables Mouse Systems protocol support and prevents driver installation if no mouse with Microsoft or Logitech protocol is found.? What precisely not understand by you there? Let me rephrase: mice with Mouse Systems protocols can't be detected, so driver always installs itself on first available COM port (with support of Mouse System protocol) if there are no PS/2 or serial mice with other protocols. To prevent driver installation when there are no mice at all, use /y option. AG 3. Could this be a memory issue, and /W would help? I doubt. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse locking up; suggestings on things to try?
There was changed (fixed) EMM386 so, that it now correctly preserves interrupt flag when calling INT15 - whereas CuteMouse 2.0 depends precisely on INT15 BIOS services. Before this change in EMM386, CuteMouse was locked (at least) in QEMU. This is why I recommend you firstly try latest EMM386 edition. Aha! That might be it. We'll give the newer version a try. Let me rephrase: mice with Mouse Systems protocols can't be detected so driver always installs itself on first available COM port (with support of Mouse System protocol) if there are no PS/2 or serial mice with other protocols. To prevent driver installation when there are no mice at all, use /y option. Oh! For whatever reason, we just didn't parse the wording correctly. Thanks for the better explanation. I think we'll add this to our options - it seems like it might be a good thing. Thanks Arkaday, Andrew -- --- Andrew Greenberg - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 503.788.1343 --- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
