At 01:53 PM 6/15/2008, David C. Partridge wrote: >Windows XP gets mighty confused by a TB connected to a serial port and >installs the MS Ball-Point Mouse driver and tries to interpret the packet >from the TB as mouse commands - just go into device manager and disable the >MS Ball-Point Mouse!
I think there's a way around this. Under win2k, you could set a flag in the boot.ini file to disable scanning for serial mice at boot. Looks like it's good for XP as well. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721 "/fastdetect:comnumber This switch turns off serial and bus mouse detection in the Ntdetect.com file for the specified port. Use this switch if you have a component other than a mouse that is attached to a serial port during the startup process. For example, type /fastdetect:comnumber, where number is the number of the serial port. Ports may be separated with commas to turn off more than one port. If you use /fastdetect, and you do not specify a communications port, serial mouse detection is turned off on all communications ports." Also see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/131976/ -- newell N5TNL _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
