Help! Bad Mouse in DOS & OS/2 but not Windows.

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2 total messages Started by Zargon the Lukewarm Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:00

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Author: Zargon the Lukewarm
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:00

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Dear All,

Sorry for the crosspost... I'm not even sure if I've got the right 
groups, but here goes:

I cannot get my mouse to work with DOS (6.20) or OS/2 Warp (Red Spine), 
though it works perfectly well in Windows 3.1. Any ideas?

I have two mice. The first is a Commodore thingy. After getting no 
response from this I bought a Genius mouse which I dutifully fitted.

Both work in Windows but neither in DOS or OS/2. What happens is that 
the drivers flatly refuse to load in either operating system. I am 
using COM 1 for the mouse.

What I don't understand is the fact that the mouse will work in Windows 
(once the correct driver is installed); though it wont work in Windows 
accessed from OS/2.

All help gratefully received,

Z

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Re: Help! Bad Mouse in DOS & OS/2 but not Windows.

#199

Author: Chris Kennington
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <456931847wnr@byte.demon.co.uk>
           Zargon@byte.demon.co.uk "Zargon the Lukewarm" writes:


" I cannot get my mouse to work with DOS (6.20) or OS/2 Warp (Red Spine), 
" though it works perfectly well in Windows 3.1. Any ideas?
[snip]
" What happens is that
" the drivers flatly refuse to load in either operating system. I am 
" using COM 1 for the mouse.

    I've installed many mice on many computers (under DOS).  You never
can tell.  But I've accumulated a library of about a ten different
mouse-drivers, and so far not yet met a DOS system & mouse which
resisted ALL of them.  Could snail you a copy on disk ...

    But my problem, no solution so far, is that my mouses will work
quite happily in DOS (with any of said drivers), but disappear when I
load windows.  (Haven't yet started pulling out non-standard hardware.)
Windoze just says "no mouse" and that's it.  Ugh! ::--((

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