Mail Archives: opendos/2003/10/22/06:01:39
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22-οΛΤ-2003 17:52 _Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com (da Silva, Joe) wrote:
dSJ> Well, I have just tried these two Cute Mouse drivers on a
dSJ> Toshiba 440CDT laptop, which runs M$-DOS 7.10 (W95B),
MS-DOS 7.1 is from W98, W95 contains MS-DOS 7.0.
dSJ> with the following results :
dSJ> Initially, I tried 2.0a4 - sometimes this would work, however,
dSJ> often it would just hang (ie. never execute the remainder of
dSJ> autoexec.bat). I then tried the parameters "/p /b /w", which
dSJ> seemed (?) to help a bit, but did not solve the problem. :-(
BTW, you may join options: "/p/b/w".
dSJ> I have now installed 1.91a1 (using the parameters "/p /b")
dSJ> and so far, this has worked OK. :-)
Well, this mean, that direct PS/2 hardware handling is not very
reliable method (or we implement it not in the best way).
dSJ> In case it's relevant, before config.sys and autoexec.bat are
dSJ> processed, there is a brief message "Panning Support Driver
dSJ> V1.0 ... (C) Toshiba ...". I have no idea what this is, however
This is program/code, which unshrinks image in LCD screen. Without
this, image on the screen is shrinked about 2/3 of screen height (with high
black stripes above and below).
dSJ> it might have something to do with the console operation and
dSJ> hence be relevant to CTmouse(?)
It shouldn't.
dSJ> The mouse in this case is merely the buttons on & below the keyboard,
dSJ> which apparently emulate a PS/2 mouse.
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