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From: "Michal H. Tyc" <mht AT bttr-software DOT de>
Organization: BTTR Software
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:22 +0200
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: CuteMouse 1.9.1 alpha 1 and CuteMouse 2.0 alpha 4
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Hi Joe,

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:52:19 +1000, da Silva, Joe wrote:

> Well, I have just tried these two Cute Mouse drivers on a
> Toshiba 440CDT laptop, which runs M$-DOS 7.10 (W95B),
> with the following results :

> Initially, I tried 2.0a4 - sometimes this would work, however,
> often it would just hang (ie. never execute the remainder of
> autoexec.bat). I then tried the parameters "/p /b /w", which
> seemed (?) to help a bit, but did not solve the problem.   :-(

> I have now installed 1.91a1 (using the parameters "/p /b")
> and so far, this has worked OK.    :-)

> In case it's relevant, before config.sys and autoexec.bat are
> processed, there is a brief message "Panning Support Driver
> V1.0 ... (C) Toshiba ...". I have no idea what this is, however
> it might have something to do with the console operation and
> hence be relevant to CTmouse(?) The mouse in this case is
> merely the buttons on & below the keyboard, which apparently
> emulate a PS/2 mouse.

I have Toshiba 300CDS. I never tried CTMOUSE under W95B, because I
installed DR-DOS on this machine, and I don't load the panning driver
under DOS. CTMOUSE 1.9x series always worked fine for me under DR-DOS,
with the built-in MousePoint device and external PS/2 and serial mice.

Now I tried CTMOUSE 2.0a4. It crashes under DR-DOS (without the panning
driver) immediately after loading. EMM386 displays an exception report
and the machine is tightly locked (hardware reset is needed).

It looks like some hardware incompatibility...

Michal