From: Andrew Hobson (gt6698a@prism.gatech.EDU)
Date: 08/27/92


From: gt6698a@prism.gatech.EDU (Andrew Hobson)
Subject: More info and corrections Re: Microsoft Bus mice
Date: 27 Aug 1992 22:52:39 GMT

Hello!

Hopefully you have seen my first post about my problems using X with
a microsoft mouse. In my first article, I said that if I ran a program
that did an ioperm on the four ports used by the mouse, then after that
I could get my mouse to work in X. Well that is half true. If I run
a program that does an ioperm on all the ports and I interrupt it
(with a ctrl-C) then I get the described behavior. If I allow the program
to exit normally, then the mouse does not work at all.

In my first article I also said that the mouse would work until the xterm
came up. That is not so. I can move the mouse around until ???
Until something happens. If I remove the xterm and xclock from my
xinitrc, the mouse still stops working at some unspecified time.

If I just run xinit with no window manager the behavior is exactly
the same.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Andrew Hobson

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Andrew Hobson                         Internet: gt6698a@prism.gatech.edu
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
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since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."   -- Albert Einstein