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 julian@icarus.riacs.edu writes:
> Here's a weird one that just started last night.  When I double click a
> certain folder on my hard disk the system forgets to update the cursor
> with the mouse position and i have to reboot the Mac. It still responds
> to the mouse button, as clicking causes the finder to do its normal
> highlighting.  It just won't move.
This sounds like the common "mouse freeze."  Any memory reference to the I/O
area of memory (above 0x800000?), even though not exactly on an I/O address,
will reset the SCC that tracks the mouse X and Y movement, disabling the
interrupts.  Something in the "Desktop" file of your hard disk evidently
causes Finder to reference such an address, but fortunately not if you
use "Open" or Command-O.  You could rebuild the desktop by holding down
whatever keys cause rebuilding the desktop while mounting a volume.

It is advertised that the TMON debugger includes "mouse antifreeze" which
corrects this problem soon after it happens.  I have been able to write a
program that gets the mouse moving again, but the Imagewriter remains killed
off until the next reboot.  The program is semi-acceptable in the Aztec C
shell environment, but in the Finder environment, you can't execute a program
when the mouse won't move!!  What is needed is a "mouse thaw" FKEY, and one
that restores Imagewriter operation, at that.  Does anyone know the secret to
making it work?

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