From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Writing Mouse Driver
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:33:40 +0000
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John Luebs writes:
>I don't want the response "just use INT 33h", that is pretty hard to do
>when you're writing your own 32-bit OS, the whole idea is to make prot 
>mode drivers!! So if you have web sites on how the mouse hardware works 
>so I can make a driver, please e-mail or post.

For basic info on the serial mouse interface, try the mouse.txt file
from the PCGPE (ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming). If you want
to support bus mice as well, the Linux sources would probably be a good
place to start.


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