#BB mouse help
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Don,
Nancy Devitt suggested you as a resource. I have installed a A2386SX BB
and a PVGA 1B card in my Amiga 2000. Everything apparantly works except I
can't get a mouse. With the VGA card in there is no cursor on the Dos
Shell screen. With the VGA card out there is a cursor that will respond to
the keyboard arrows but not to the mouse. I added Janus to the path in
AUTOEXEC.BAT file as well as AMOUSE and ATIME. On startup there is no
"mouse active" title bar. If I run Amouse I get a message that there is
already a mouse driver installed and then the "mouse active" title bar
appears on the amiga screen (and it will switch between the two ports with
left Amiga-P toggle). I also removed AMOUSE form the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and
ran it after boot, curiously I still get the message "mouse driver already
installed". I would be grateful for any help you can provide.
David
Also make sure your VGA card does not use IRQ 2
Dave
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David,
Not sure I can help you. I can tell you what my suspicions are, but I
have no way to test things.
I suspect your problem is much like the AREAD and AWRITE problems. Try
doing this..put amouse back in your autoexec.bat file. Then, on the Amiga
side, create a 2 line script file that reads like this:
PCRESET
BINDDRIVERS
Call it reboot.pc or whatever you want, make the file executable via
the PROTECT command:
PROTECT reboot.pc +S
(or whatever you called it)
Now, from a CLI type REBOOT.PC and after it's done, go back to the PC
side and see if you now get the mouse active title bar.
As to your VGA card can't help you other than to suggest you turn off
the Amiga video modes in PCPrefs and on the BB if it's got a jumper to
disable the default video mode.
Don
Don,
BINGO! Mouse now functioning. Thanks much.
David