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#Intermittent Summasketch

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#185282From: mike dawsonAug 15, 1995 9:19 PM
We have a Summa Sketch FX model# CEM1212 12×12 tablet that is giving us the fits. There are two things that aren't right. When the system boots and tablet.com from autoexec.bat is run, "tablet absent or not responding" is displayed. If we fire up Animator Pro, the tablet works. If we go into Windows, it doesn't work. The mouse driver for Windows is Summa Sketch MM Win Tab Driver ver. 2.07. Is there a newer driver? Is there one that works? We're also getting an error message in Windows that "this version of mouse driver needs to be 8.20 or newer". Then another error message comes up and says "File Error – can't find dgvsmm.dll". I don't have this file. It's not on the install disks nor is it anywhere on the hard drive. Does anybody have any advice? We sure would appreciate it. mdawson
#185296From: dave aguilarAug 15, 1995 10:22 PM
>> Does anybody have any advice? We sure would appreciate it. << yes! contact summagraphics! they should have this driver, even if it didn't ship with their disks. they're pretty good about shipping drivers out to folks too… i've had them send me out windows drivers before. quick turnaround too. they may even have a BBS by now.<g> -dave
#185306From: mike dawsonAug 15, 1995 11:07 PM
Dave, Thanks for your quick response. That is sage advice! We just got the tablet about 2 mos. ago, so I figured that the drivers were fairly recent. I didn't think the drivers could be that far out of date. But I shall call them in the morning and find out. mdawson
#185343From: dave aguilarAug 16, 1995 2:44 AM
>> Thanks for your quick response. That is sage advice! We just got the tablet about 2 mos. ago, so I figured that the drivers were fairly recent. I didn't think the drivers could be that far out of date. But I shall call them in the morning and find out. << if you don't get fair response (remote possibility but possibility i guess), let us know. 🙂 -dave
#186730From: Mark YankeeAug 23, 1995 2:50 AM
Dave, << [Summagraphics] they're pretty good about shipping drivers out to folks too… i've had them send me out windows drivers before. quick turnaround too. >> I take it you haven't asked them for a Windows NT driver yet… << they may even have a BBS by now. >> Yes they do. Mark
#186737From: dave aguilarAug 23, 1995 3:27 AM
>> I take it you haven't asked them for a Windows NT driver yet… << nope. 🙂 >> << they may even have a BBS by now. >> Yes they do. << kewl. -dave
#185585From: Michael LudwigAug 17, 1995 8:32 AM
Forget about tablet.com, we use smouse.com for years and had much fun with it (even with lots of emulations: Kontron in summa-mode etc.). There's a nice driver for windows out there too…. Michael
#185879From: mike dawsonAug 18, 1995 2:42 PM
Michael, Thanks for your reply. What is Kontron? I've never heard of it. I determined that I had a bad serial port, which has now been replaced. Everything seems fine in DOS, but I still can't get the tablet to work as a mouse in Windows. Does the software you mention deal with this issue? Tell me more! mdawson