Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!claris!apple!phil From: phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Toolbox Doesn't Work With Viking I Monitor Message-ID: <21438@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 30 Nov 88 17:15:03 GMT References: <6298@bunny.UUCP> Organization: Apple Computer A/UX Group Lines: 37 In article <6298@bunny.UUCP> dcr0@bunny.UUCP (David Robbins) writes: >I have an A/UX Macintosh II with a Moniterm Viking I Monitor. Everything >works just fine and dandy, except for one little detail: the A/UX Toolbox >does not seem to notice that there is a mouse attached to the machine. If > >1) Is there really something lacking that Moniterm ought to have put into > their ROMs (or ought to have supplied to be loaded into A/UX)? > >2) Is there some reasonably straightforward magic incantation I can speak > at A/UX to convince the toolbox that there really is a mouse out there? Dave - this is a real puzzler. A large variety of video cards and their monitors, both Apple and third party, work just fine on A/UX, with mouse tracking and all. This is from early BETAs through A/UX 1.0 and on. Normally, the code in the monitor ROM on the video card has nothing to do with mouse handling/tracking. A GUESS repeat GUESS is that the code on the ROM on your third party card is doing a nono and interfering (via a patch??) with the code used to track the mouse. A/UX comes with all the code for mouse handling. You might ask your vendor if they are up to date on Apple guidelines for video card ROMs -- especially in making sure that the code in the ROM is "32-bit safe". See also "Designing Cards and Drivers for Macintosh II and Macintosh SE", Addison-Wesley, 1987. +------------------------+-----------------------+----------------------------+ | Philip K. Ronzone | A/UX System Architect | APPLELINK: RONZONE1 | | Apple Computer MS 27AJ +-----------------------+----------------------------+ | 10500 N. DeAnza Blvd. | There's a million things we'd like to say, but we | | Cupertino CA 95014 | aren't supposed to piss anybody off. Oh well ... | +------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+ |{amdahl,decwrl,sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual,unisoft}!apple!phil | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+