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Sender: nate AT cartsys DOT com
Message-ID: <35DF0E52.C746EC85@cartsys.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:30:42 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: Kirby Vandivort <kvandivo AT nova DOT nuc DOT umr DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Mouse movement crashing DOSEMU under Linux
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980812131134 DOT 17366B AT is>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On 12 Aug 1998, Kirby Vandivort wrote:
> 
> > RHIDE is crashing on me under dosemu (in linux), and I'm not sure how to
> > solve the problem.  Every time I move the mouse, rhide disappears, and I
> > get a warning that dosemu spits out that says:
> >
> > MOUSE: SET ALTERNATE MOUSE USER HANDLER unimplemented.
> 
> This probably means that DOSEmu doesn't support a service of Int 33h
> which RHIDE uses to get mouse events.
> 
> Try invoking RHIDE with -M switch.  This will disable the mouse, but you
> cannot use it in RHIDE under Linux anyway.

You can also try giving DOSEmu access to the mouse's serial port, and
using your DOS mouse driver.  This works for me; I've had trouble with
its internal driver.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com


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