Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!labrea!rocky!ali From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: 2000 unwellness... Message-ID: <818@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 87 22:59:01 GMT Reply-To: ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer) Distribution: na Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department Lines: 26 Keywords: Bobs, Intuition, Workbench, A2000 --- A friend just got his rev 4.2 2000 yesterday and first tests indicate something's wrong with the machine. In the Workbench, attempting to drag icons (or sometimes even just activating them) fails in the following fashion: Within 20 pixels of motion, the icon drops back to the Workbench (without text) and further attempts to move it or activate any other icon fail. The pointer continues to function until one attempts to activate an intuition gadget (drag bar, right mouse button anywhere on the screen, etc). Here the pointer hangs (but you can still A-M/A-N) until a disk is inserted in any drive. Input events are stored while the pointer is hung and processed properly following the disk insertion. It's a vanilla 2000 with an external drive. And *any* workbench disk will do. Seems like someone (Intuition?) is leaving the layers locked; hence the pointer position is updated until an event requiring drawing on the locked layer occurs. It seems to miss a BLITTER_FINISHED signal during the drag, so it never thinks the drag is done so it never thinks to unlocklayer(). Please send any comments to me (ali@rocky.stanford.edu), or, better yet, if you can get it to work, to my friend Art (r.racer@lear.stanford.edu). Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu